Sentence examples for personal ascendancy from inspiring English sources

He had achieved a personal ascendancy unmatched by any Labour leader since Clement Attlee.

British domination in Egypt and Cromer's personal ascendancy never seemed more secure than in the period following the Entente Cordiale.

These weaknesses, however, lay concealed behind the personal ascendancy of an exceptionally tough and commanding set of rulers up to the middle of the 11th century.

In the British system, cabinet appointments are made to consolidate the prime minister's personal ascendancy within the parliamentary party or to placate its different factions.

Still, it was a measure of his personal ascendancy that he persuaded the Palestinians to go to the 1991 Madrid peace conference, the first time Israel and its Arab neighbours had talked to each other across a table.

Until then, we have a series of attractive Marshalls who are nonetheless haunted by the specter of the accidental jurist who Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. thought had little truly original to offer beyond "a strong intellect, a good style, personal ascendancy in his court, courage, justice and convictions of his party".

The takeover marked the ascendancy of personal computers over the behemoths that had dominated computing in the 1970s.

He was quick to agree that lots of parties and party-goers use and abuse fundraisers for personal gain and social ascendancy, but assured me that this close knit council was both passionate and committed to their cause.

Experience is at once universal and unique, but the ascendancy of the personal memoir suggests a culture in which proxy maundering is mistaken for emotional literacy.

If only climate change were such a phenomenon and if only science held such an ascendancy over our personal, social and political life and decisions.

The increasingly large proportion of Semitic elements in the population were in the ascendancy, and their personal loyalty to Sargon and his successors replaced the regional patriotism of the old cities.