Sentence examples for of ascendancy from inspiring English sources

Losing all three games could shatter their illusion of ascendancy.

In July Michele Bachmann, a shrill congresswoman, had a moment of ascendancy.

Horst Rechelbacher's life story reads like an epic: flights of ascendancy followed by crash and burn, with phoenixlike resurrections.

An engagement at Radcot Bridge, at which Richard's favourite, Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford, was defeated, settled the matter of ascendancy.

Catch of the day Matt Prior had to fly far and low to his right to snaffle Peter Siddle during England's period of ascendancy in the morning.

Chinese papers this week have cast the G-20 as a moment of ascendancy, describing China and the U.S. on an equal footing.

But clearly, the very fact of the global nature of the ascendancy of this dark force shows that national politics is not the only level involved.

It also marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the Metropolis of Patras in the peninsula's ecclesiastical affairs.

The predominance of the law of the Hispano-Roman majority over that of the Visigoths was another manifestation of the ascendancy of Roman civilization.

In particular, early naturalists' accounts of marine species were abundant since the beginning of the 19th century, as a consequence of the ascendancy of the Linnaean system [13].

The incorporation of the Stationers' Company, like that of other London companies, was in itself an indication of the ascendancy of the trader over the craftsman.