Sentence examples for its ascendancy from inspiring English sources

Now is the critical time to cultivate and harness relations with Brazil while it is in its ascendancy.

Some would say that the New York art market keeps its ascendancy because it has no droit-de-suite, but even if it had, Dumas would have had no more than a nibble of the hundreds of thousands of dollars Robins made from selling her work.

This is a time when the Japanese economy was in its ascendancy, and it was believed that was due to their prowess in manufacturing.

Many believe the Valley lacks the ability to re-engineer itself and make the critical shift to the next S-curve that it would require to maintain its ascendancy.

By the time his 2009 remix of La Roux's In For The Kill was released, dubstep was in its ascendancy and Skream was credited for it breaking into the mainstream.

England retained the Ashes, cricket's most storied trophy, on Wednesday when it beat Australia by an emphatic margin, underlining its ascendancy in one of the world's great sporting rivalries.

It takes as much pride in its economic rise as it does in its cultural ascendancy.

Brazil eventually decided to intervene in the Uruguayan affair to reestablish the security of its southern frontiers and its regional ascendancy.

And so for the Chinese, the status quo works: China is growing, its influence in Asia is expanding, its military ascendancy along the coast facing Taiwan is striking, and its economy is on a path toward overtaking Japan's.

It's a thought that comes from rereading Paul Kennedy's magisterial tome, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, in which he shows that none of the great nation-states or empires of history – Rome; imperial Spain in 1600; France in either its Bourbon or Bonapartist manifestations; the Dutch republic in 1700; Britain in its imperial glory – succeeded in maintaining its global ascendancy for long.

In Europe his Spain is taken seriously; Mr Aznar makes much of its new ascendancy in Latin America, where it has overtaken the United States as the biggest investor.