Sentence examples for its ascendant from inspiring English sources

Following the 1968 convention, a party commission produced rules changes meant to give greater voice to its ascendant constituencies.

Similarly, the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, had many partisans on the side of civil rights, while its ascendant far-right segment (the Goldwater wing) defended segregation.

Hyundai, with its ascendant profile, would not be expected to undercut its competitors to the degree that it did in years' past.

Grand Canyon claims to be different from other for-profit universities, pointing to an expanding campus and its ascendant athletic department.

The director has a suite with a view of the woods — pleasant on autumn days, but otherwise not the most breathtaking view that Washington has to offer its ascendant class.

The "stampede of the middle class into the stock market," Starkman writes, fueled demand for insider business intelligence and investor-oriented news, and coincided with the rise of CNBC and its ascendant strain of access reporting.

There's as much, if not more, reason to take stock of the Brazilian startup economy now as there was in 2012, when the country was at its most ascendant.

Its fame is ascendant, and this ascendency will in all likelihood contribute to an increase in both its financial value and cultural cachet, as well as to Detroit's overall vibrancy and morale.

For the American mainstream — moderate and apolitical as well as liberal — the Reagan era really was a kind of conservative answer to the New Deal era: A period when the right's ideas were ascendant, its constituencies empowered, its favored policies pursued.

But with seven months left in this administration, Iran appears ascendant, its political and economic influence growing, its historic foes in Iraq and Afghanistan weakened, and its nuclear program continuing to move forward.

With a growing split of the Cuban-American vote between its historically Republican and ascendant Democratic camps and with its large populations of Dominicans, Puerto Ricans and other Democrat-leaning Latino subgroups, Miami provided the perfect venue from which to project and broadcast the ascent, dynamism and complexity of Latino power.