The government and the army repeatedly supported imperialistically motivated aggression, as did large Japanese companies looking for new resources, opening the way for the ascendancy of military supremacy in politics.
The 1889 death of Emperor Yohannes IV was followed by great disorder as his potential successors fought for ascendancy.
The fish was beautifully cooked, but the dish was fussy with too many assertive tastes vying for ascendancy.
Nasiriya is a stage, rendered small, where several Shiite currents, from street movements to venerable parties, are now vying for ascendancy.
For almost six weeks these two narratives have been fought over in a struggle for ascendancy.
Iraqi national politics, as a result, is paralysed, while the major sectarian and ethnic groups vie for ascendancy.
It was an ominous start, and despite Franklin booting the opening goal of the term, the Bulldogs had the ascendancy.
The left-arm fast bowler conceded 53 runs from his first eight overs and, despite coming back to dismiss Cook and Matt Prior, he still went for 107 off 19. "I really enjoyed the opening stand with Cooky and we managed to get some early ascendancy over the Aussies but, as is often the case with them, they came back well in that final session," Strauss said.
The reaction among alarmed Protestants and their apprehension that emancipation might open the door for the Catholic majority ultimately to achieve ascendancy led to an alliance between the Presbyterians and their old oppressors, the Protestant Episcopalians.
Though the rise of the mammals is often dated from 66m years ago, when a mass extinction of the dinosaurs left the planet open for colonisation by other groups, it is actually the beginning of the Eocene, 10m years later, which marks the ascendancy of modern mammal groups.Oceanic acidity levels appear now to be rising ten times as fast as they did at the end of the Palaeocene.
If the title of Ridley's essay, "The Manifesto of Ascendancy for the Modern American Nigger," doesn't adequately convey its contents, consider the opening paragraph: Let me tell you something about niggers, the oppressed minority within our minority.
