| The ascendency of Hardwicke's position was aided by two factors in addition to Fortescue's retirement. |
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| The unmitigated disaster that administration produced paved the way for Republican ascendency. |
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| Football common sense, though, suggests teams must score when in ascendency. |
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| The ascendency that he gained over her, however, did not lead to her submission. |
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| The ascendency of the administrative system within the present century has been only a first step in this development. |
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| Yet despite this, its ascendency is no less compelling than that of the Bay Area. |
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| With the exile of al-Muʿtamid and his family to Morocco began the ascendency in Spain of the Almoravids. |
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| The phenomenon worsened in the 1980s with the ascendency of television, satellite and the Internet. |
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| These megacity mayors reflect and embody the ascendency of cities in a world of dysfunctional nation-states. |
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| He ended French Valois ambitions in Italy and brought about the Habsburg ascendency in Europe. |
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| As a native Torontonian my heart glowed with warm pride as I read Trina McQueen's account of the cultural ascendency of my hometown. |
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| A best-seller that became a major film in 1965, it tells of the ocean voyage of a group of Germans back to their homeland from Mexico in 1931, on the eve of Hitler's ascendency. |
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| Given the region's ascendency to independence over the last 30 years, independence has provided the opportunity for more defined diplomatic relations on bilateral and, to a lesser extent, multilateral affairs. |
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| However, as Griehl points out in his work, the continued production of aircraft in ever growing numbers coupled with the continued development of new technology in an attempt to regain air power ascendency was remarkable. |
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| Administrative disposition of some waters goes back at least to Roman times, when an authorization was required for taking water from navigable streams, but its real ascendency began in the nineteenth century. |
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| A lot of youth are victims of encumbered ascendency, of which they bear the consequences, mysteriously, according the the law of heredity, by presenting specific symptoms. |
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| One of the more important results of the ascendency of the administrative system has been that the water administration is taking over irrigation water supply, which becomes less and less an individual enterprise. |
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| Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts. |
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| In the early years of his ascendency, he seized Damascus and much of Syria, but not Aleppo. |
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| As witnesses of fratricidal wars that rob countless numbers of human beings of a quiet family life, let us intercede with Christ, our Saviour, so that undertakings of peace gain ascendency over enterprises of destruction. |
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| The ascendency of the Mercians came to an end in 825, when they were soundly beaten under Beornwulf at the Battle of Ellendun by Egbert of Wessex. |
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