The supposed transfer of allegiance from the older, declining imperial power to the ascendant one oversimplifies Curtin's choice. |
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Less often considered is whether this ascendant legalism is good or bad for global prosperity and stability. |
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This was something of a milestone in Hollywood history, signaling the ascendant power of the producer over the director. |
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Its president is consolidating power, its security services are in the ascendant, and its own businessmen are afraid to invest in its future. |
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The uneasy ceasefire between an authoritative church and an ascendant political class may be at an end. |
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To do so would only risk alienating and provoking conflict with a rising Europe and an ascendant Asia. |
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The growth of the exercise phenomenon was inexorably bound up with the ascendant women's movement. |
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Of all the objects, places, concepts, and titanic forces at play in 2004, the most monumental, influential, and ascendant is surely the blog. |
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Consequently, the more romantic vision of community design emanating from the New Urbanists is in the ascendant. |
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I make sure to read both my sun sign and my ascendant, Cancer and Leo respectively. |
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Obviously, if the ascendant sign could be either of two signs, this greatly affects the evaluation. |
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A neutral Saturn would probably err on the side of maturity through the Capricorn ascendant. |
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The spikemosses are creeping or ascendant plants with simple, scale-like leaves on branching stems from which roots also arise. |
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He was certainly unaware of Pluto transiting the 1066 ascendant at the time of Cromwell's birth. |
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Your desire to take action comes from that very potent Mars that sits right on your Leo ascendant. |
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Tories had already suffered losses in the Irish general election of 1713, at a time when the party was still in the ascendant in England. |
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With the chancellor in the ascendant, the trade minister will be hoping for a promotion. |
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It is especially important to remember this now, when Faith is once more in the ascendant and Reason seems to be losing ground daily. |
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It can't just have been the mesmeric, beguiling videos by hip, ascendant directors. |
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Many of these architects are already in the ascendant with a small but growing body of work behind them. |
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When a star dies early, their career still in the ascendant, the tendency is to eulogise them for their unfulfilled potential. |
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The contradictions between an ascendant democratic movement and a timeworn media oligarchy are extreme. |
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Of course, other factors tie into this, such as the exalted and angular Jupiter, ruler of his ascendant. |
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With Choiseul gone, the devout party was in the ascendant and d' Aiguillon's appointment to the ministry imminent. |
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Mercury, triplicity ruler of the lights and ascendant, is angular and almuten. |
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In the meantime, the main heresy condemned at the council, Arianism, became ascendant and almost triumphed over orthodoxy. |
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He came to adulthood at a time during which a particular type of Anglo-Catholic theology was still in the ascendant. |
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The trine aspect to the ascendant and association with the Sun helps to alleviate the more negative associations of cadency. |
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Part of it is also because he is on the party's liberal wing at a time when the right is in the ascendant. |
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Vast fortunes were made and an already wealthy city became the ascendant center of power in the new United States. |
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The second triplicity ruler, Saturn, also the dispositor of the ascendant, is exalted. |
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In case the deceased has left no ascendant or descendent but has left the uterine brother and sister, each of the two inherit one sixth. |
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The interaction between the parts and the horizon brings the lunation cycle down to earth, projecting it, via the ascendant, into the sublunar sphere of the mundane houses. |
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And while the common law judges, with the prestige, wealth and cunning of the national government behind them, were ascendant forces, they had to tread rather softly. |
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One factor that largely determined the ancient recognition of house strength is the aspectual relationship that naturally exists between house cusps and the ascendant. |
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That is to say, Milton at this time had notions that would have been deemed as heretical by the Calvinist theology of the ascendant Presbyterian Puritans. |
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With hardliners in the ascendant, hope of turning aside Iran's troubling nuclear ambitions is fading too. |
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Additionally, in some jurisdictions, other ascendant or descendent relatives may be entitled to maintenance. |
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But, certainly until Mr Ahmed's arrival, the Shabab have been in the ascendant. |
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After falling into the trough of the wave, radiofrequency chips are now in the ascendant for certain applications. |
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In fact, it is the one form of political violence that is in the ascendant today. |
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But although conflict caused by traditional nationalist motives is declining globally, another type of conflict is in the ascendant. |
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Perhaps we should not be surprised that Liberal economic and social thought is in the ascendant. |
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These values are now in the ascendant throughout the world, and hopefully this time for good. |
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The media perform a direct and indirect role in public debate whose influence is in the ascendant. |
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In the current international context, these fields are once more in the ascendant. |
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In the early twentieth century, Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis was in the ascendant and raised subjects that could be depicted in films too. |
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Are they now in the ascendant within the republican movement? |
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The euro was launched as a symbol of a new ascendant Europe. |
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A good book, written by one person for any number of selfish and unselfish reasons, goes against the clockwork agenda so ascendant everywhere in the world. |
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The strategic decision by the United States to try and convince the Shah to share some of his power with the ascendant middle class was the result of a combination of factors. |
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The ascendant ideologies of domestic and foreign security share a nexus in privileging the rights of a state over the collective rights of its citizens. |
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This hegemony was sanctioned by an ascendant authority, namely science. |
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The Astrofaces research project seeks to verify astrology for modern science with photographs grouped by the sun, moon and ascendant signs of the subjects. |
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If not, then use the ascendant if the birth was preceded by a New Moon. |
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My call will not be very long, but I do point out to this House that the number of incidents of female prison officers getting involved with prisoners is in the ascendant. |
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They are fascinated by all the peripheral byways of the ascendant road, all those conundrums of the intellect which life throws up. |
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The debate between the two raged briefly, but six months on there is no doubt which side are in the ascendant. |
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Its evil echo reverberates in this new episode: Sansa refuses to eat, while the wicked King Joffrey is ascendant. |
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Across the country, the effect on the government's popularity has been devastating. Ever since, the BNP has been in the ascendant. |
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The ascendant media that looked down on him has been pretty much destroyed. |
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During Shemayah's time the heretical sect, the Sadducees, were ascendant and would wield significant influence until the destruction of the Temple. |
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Ideology, or, to use Stephen Colberts term, truthiness, is ascendant, But the best antidote to that is critical reason, something Reedies have in abundance. |
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Set in medieval Asia, it follows a motley crew of diplomats, soldiers and slaves from the kingdom of Koryo as they are rejected and exiled by China's ascendant Ming lords. |
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European government leaders welcomed the fragmentation of the ascendant American Republic. |
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The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the Georgium sidus became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone. |
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Stressed as it may be, the Coalition of the ascendant is not disappearing. |
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Gay marriage is ascendant, driven by a rapidly shifting public opinion. |
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If, as it appears, the influence of Ms Warren and her message is ascendant, now is the time for progressives like Mr Wills to demand that she seize real influence by running for the Democratic nomination. |
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Mr Paisley's wish to renegotiate the agreement without the participation of republicans has convinced them that Protestant-Catholic power-sharing would be impossible with the DUP in the ascendant. |
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African leaders sent a signal last week that agriculture in the ascendant sector when, for the first time ever, they selected an agriculture minister, Nigeria's Akinwumi Adesina, to head the African Development Bank. |
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Disposables technologies are very much in the ascendant at the moment, and we anticipate that disposables product business will be our principal driver of growth over the coming years. |
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In the early 2000s, the premise that boys were victims of the school system was in the ascendant and was thus taken up and developed by pressure groups and invoked in support of hasty experiments. |
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In some periods or circumstances, the balance between them is weighted in favour of continuity but, at this historical moment, the forces of change are in the ascendant. |
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Especially in the current European climate, where the extreme right is in the ascendant, the European Union has every reason for tackling this growing problem. |
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Hamas, however, is still in the ascendant. |
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Today, her Gemini appears in the ascendant. |
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Individually, these people were in the ascendant. |
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Because I did not choose to reappear in a Corsican envelope of Man, Virgo star sign with Virgo ascendant with a dominant Mars, who is not afraid to be constantly Pure and Rightful, in an impure and deviating world! |
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Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent. |
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On worlds one through six you reviewed your ascendant experience to date. |
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Merlin matures to an ascendant sagehood and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic and intrigue. |
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But in spite of Dow, and all other malicious scandalisms, Fletcher's star was evidently in the ascendant. |
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Evil magic, unquiet spirits, banal objects with unsuspected teeth: all come out in good time for Halloween, and remain in the ascendant until Christmas Eve. |
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Even as out-of-power Democrats act like establishmentarians, the city's ascendant GOP riding class retain the instincts of revolutionaries. |
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But to offend the poster child of the newly ascendant right-wing would offend Ford Nation, its multitudes signed up and ready to go, go, go and vote, vote, vote. |
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A Scottish army invaded England in support of the Engagement, but was routed at the Battle of Preston, leaving the Kirk Party in the ascendant in Scotland. |
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In the Eighteenth Century Shakespeare's image was in the ascendant, beginning with Nicholas Rowe's biography in 1709, the primary source of the Stratfordian story. |
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Every religion that becomes ascendant, in so far as it is not otherworldly, must necessarily set its stamp upon the methods and administration of the law. |
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