| Football common sense, though, suggests teams must score when in ascendency. |
| The unmitigated disaster that administration produced paved the way for Republican ascendency. |
| How far the ascendency of his own personality was involved, we have no means of judging. |
| These megacity mayors reflect and embody the ascendency of cities in a world of dysfunctional nation-states. |
| With the exile of al-Muʿtamid and his family to Morocco began the ascendency in Spain of the Almoravids. |
| The ascendency that he gained over her, however, did not lead to her submission. |
