| With meritocracy in the ascendance, aristocracy was in descent. |
| He argues that the hawthorn bush would not be part of Henry's coat of arms if it did not have a strong relationship to his ascendance. |
| Data eclipsed God in 1973, and its continuing ascendance suggests a culture that treats it as a surrogate divinity. |
| The order of succession of the Department was also reorganised to limit the ascendance of the holders of political functions. |
| Not that this bigotry was an obstacle to his ascendance in the Republican Party. |
| But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance. |
