| With the exile of al-Muʿtamid and his family to Morocco began the ascendency in Spain of the Almoravids. |
| 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. |
| The ascendency that he gained over her, however, did not lead to her submission. |
| In practice the rotten borough system, as it was called, tended to perpetuate the ascendency of the landed proprietors. |
| The phenomenon worsened in the 1980s with the ascendency of television, satellite and the Internet. |
