Sentence examples for intellectual ascendancy from inspiring English sources

The leading figure in Florence's intellectual ascendancy was a returning exile, Brunetto Latini.

In Britain, David Cameron's travails have come from wrongly believing that the right is in the political and intellectual ascendancy.

Charlie Robertson, the global chief economist for Renaissance Capital, the Russian-based investment bank, was moved to post on Twitter, in reaction to the TED lineup, that the "intellectual ascendancy of neo-liberalism since 70s may be in retreat".

Wittes wrote: "the simple truth is that the individual-rights view is in intellectual ascendancy, and not just among gun-loving wing nuts".

Only such a complete intellectual & moral ascendancy could hold me.

With Europe virtually depopulated and Christianity reduced to a historical footnote, Buddhists, Muslims, Chinese imperialists, Indian visionaries and autonomous Native Americans vie for military, intellectual and moral ascendancy.

In Indonesia, Mr. Wahid's stature as a religious figure and an intellectual preceded his political ascendancy.

Even so, he wrote, "We believe the white race, by their intellectual and traditional superiority, will retain sufficient ascendancy to prevent any serious mischief from the new order of things".

Assimilation has become a dirty word among American intellectuals and opinion leaders, especially with the ascendancy of the multicultural ideal.

By the time the American Historical Association was founded, in 1884, the "cult of the fact" (as the intellectual historian Peter Novick has called it) had achieved ascendancy.

In other areas, particularly policy towards trade and globalisation, the intellectual rifts are real and deepening, with sceptics on the left in the ascendancy.