Sentence examples for that ascendancy from inspiring English sources

But that ascendancy might be its own salvation, because with it comes responsibility.

when the example of its benefits, long and practically enjoyed, shall acquire that ascendancy over the opinions of other nations which gives motion to the springs and direction to the wheels of the power.

That ascendancy brought huge temptations which New Labour had failed to resist, not least in the way it was ready to steamroller civil liberties in the name of the fight against terrorism.

Yet Adams admitted the impossibility of winning acceptance for it in the United States, until a future time when the example of its benefits, long and practically enjoyed, shall acquire that ascendancy over the opinions of other nations which gives motion to the springs and direction to the wheels of the power.

When Canning, an unqualified Emancipator, became prime minister in April 1827, however, Wellington felt that Protestant Ascendancy was in jeopardy.

Zhao, Wade-Giles romanization Chao, ancient Chinese feudal state, one of the seven powers that achieved ascendancy during the Warring States (Zhanguo) period (475 221 bce) of Chinese history.

Blaut argues that European ascendancy began after 1492, as it was able to draw in capital from the "New World"—in particular, the Americas]Clark, G. (2008).

When he was appointed chairman of Fiat in late May, it seemed to some that his ascendancy was a story long foretold, at least among the Agnellis.

An elegy for Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, transforms persuasively into an assertion that the ascendancy of The Story of My Life is an outgrowth of "a generation growing up playing first-person shooters".

China, which brags about its emerging influential status on the world stage, must realize that its ascendancy has come at the cost of so many human liberties and deference of countless dreams.

What Riley does is take the standard rationale for academic freedom seriously and then argue that the ascendancy of vocationalism, in combination with other factors she names, undermines that rationale and leaves very few college teachers in need of, or deserving of, academic freedom.