But a funny thing happened on the way to Agribiz ascendancy; the same military-industrial complex that locked us into this fuel-ish food chain also gave us the key to free ourselves--the Internet.
Nor was the Ascendancy experience the same thing as the English experience.
The Houthis are on the ascendancy at the same time as the Assad regime – under Suleimani's tutelage – is successfully splintering the Sunni-dominated opposition.
As it is, the filmmakers and their interlocutors make much of Mr. Nader's popularity with the American public in the 1970s, but seem unable to acknowledge that, in the next decade, much of that same public embraced Ronald Reagan, whose ascendancy is treated, with wearying predictability, as the result of elite conspiracy and public delusion.
At the same time, Ms Le Pen's ascendancy is remodelling the political landscape into a three-party configuration, in which the National Front shifts from being a fringe movement to a party of (albeit limited) power.
Swift shared a common language with his English friends Alexander Pope and Viscount Bolingbroke, but, in the words of 20th-century Irish nationalist writer Daniel Corkery, "the Ascendancy mind is not the same thing as the English mind".
Becker tries to observe his own ascendancy in France with the same detachment with which he observes other people, but his appeal to the French goes beyond his simply not being Bourdieu.
At the same time modern living has seen the ascendancy of fast-food, computer games and television, resulting in many young people living far less physically active and healthy lifestyles.
City's 2-0 victory here 12 months ago propelled them back into the ascendancy in the title race, on the same afternoon as Steven Gerrard's untimely slip against Chelsea punctured the momentum for Brendan Rodgers' side.
The same antigay rhetoric heard in the United States during the ascendancy of Anita Bryant and the evangelical right — but much harsher — is spewed by Ugandan zealots campaigning for the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, first introduced in 2009 and still pending.
