Sentence examples for to ascendancy from inspiring English sources
noun
The process or period of one's ascent
- This was a key moment in Caesar's ascendancy.
His coronation as emperor the first and last imperial coronation in Spain in the cathedral of León in 1135 was intended to assert Leonese claims to ascendancy throughout Spain; however, the newly formed federation of Aragon and Catalonia and the newly independent kingdom of Portugal soon offered a daunting challenge to Leonese predominance.
It is also linked to ascendancy of the concept of fitnah (temptation) which argues for greater separation of sexes.
It is arguable that Moore did not understand what he was aiming to refute, but his essay began a return to ascendancy by the British empiricist tradition that spelt the end of British Idealism.
Proving that its massive investments in media (Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Patch) can in fact net it quarterly profit would go a long way to stating that it isn't simply a business clinging to ascendancy lost by the end of the 90s.
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.
People became desperate to hang on to the ascendancy of left ideas without really questioning what they were about".
Republican moderates, pointing to the ascendancy of Representative Sherwood Boehlert to the Science Committee and Mr. Thomas to Ways and Means, said they were well represented.
Thanks to the ascendancy of gangsta rap, to Biggie and Tupac, the wider public often expects rappers to die violently.
It is impossible to imagine the ascendancy to superstardom of the model Tyson Beckford without the giant strides made by Naomi Campbell and her precursors, Beverly Johnson and Iman, across fashion's color line.
A coalition (connubio) of Liberals of the Right Centre and Left Centre parties was arranged by the two men (Feb. 5, 1852) and led directly to Cavour's ascendancy to the premiership.
No one can prove that the favorable Great-White-Way climate is linked to Obama's ascendancy to the land's highest post.
