The president used ascendancy to sway the voters. From LearnThat.org.
The blue ascendancy is nearly as strong among Republicans as it is among Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [November 2004] Reference
Similarly, it doesn't matter which party is in ascendancy in Canada - Canada will not change substantially. From Wordnik.com. [warnings] Reference
"American soccer is on a long term ascendancy - a win tomorrow would certainly help people appreciate that.". From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Their continued ascendancy is a major blow — tilt the message and you gradually tilt the mind — to the left and to moderates. From Wordnik.com. [2008 April : Law is Cool] Reference
Meanwhile, video games, blogs, and social media are in ascendancy. From Wordnik.com. [Takashi Murakami: Contemporary Art In Versailles: Addressing The Controversy] Reference
The six years (1444-1450) of his ascendancy were the most prosperous period of the reign of Charles VII. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
But, younger people must understand that the book came out when the liberal wave was still in ascendancy. From Wordnik.com. [Join the Party: Why You Should Celebrate Rand’s 100th, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
It represents the British Empire in its descent and a former colony in its ascendancy, which is a lot of baggage to carry. From Wordnik.com. [Jalopnik] Reference
The press simply refuses to focus on the Obamas and how their ascendancy is the same tug of war with the power status quo. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
The 1970s and 1980s represented decades during which the rational expectations/representative agent model was in ascendancy. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph E. Stiglitz - Autobiography] Reference
Corps has succeeded in establishing an individual ascendancy, which is as serviceable to us as it is damaging to the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
(corporate-militarist) ascendancy, that is to say, throughout my entire life as a voting United States citizen. From Wordnik.com. [amor mundi] Reference
When the tanned skin Greeks were in 'ascendancy', they regarded their lighter rivals from the north as inferior barbarians. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaica - Full Feed] Reference
His book has over the reader that moral ascendancy which is everything in war and which determines success, according to the author. From Wordnik.com. [Battle Studies] Reference
"ascendancy" of any state or people or interest in the shipping of the world. From Wordnik.com. [War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war] Reference
A kind of ascendancy in his circle of intimates -- but naturally it gained him no friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference
We have given nuclear weapons ascendancy over our better judgement. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Crandell: Feeling Powerless About Nuclear Weapons? Try "Zero"] Reference
How inevitable is the ascendancy of Asia, and how should the West respond?. From Wordnik.com. [Mapping A New World] Reference
The biggest shift is the ascendancy of Asia and Europe relative to America. From Wordnik.com. [Sharp-Elbowed Cities] Reference
Senate during the dark days of the Newt Gingrich ascendancy in the mid-'90s. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In Clinton's Shadow] Reference
He has to deal with the two major political parties in there for ascendancy. From Wordnik.com. [Get Ready for the ‘Biden Report’] Reference
The left has responded to the conservative ascendancy by going to earth on campuses. From Wordnik.com. [Still Waiting For Lefty] Reference
The Mongols and the Ottomans, the Swedes and the Teutonic knights vied for ascendancy here. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble Next Door] Reference
The notoriety of India's infrastructure could prevent the rise to ascendancy in our country. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
NEWSWEEK's Christopher Werth spoke with Kagan about the ascendancy of great-power competition. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kagan: Why Should Democracy Be Shy?] Reference
Rosenberg was a college freshman in 1981, the beginning of the era of conservative ascendancy. From Wordnik.com. [Bush Is Right—On Immigration, Anyway] Reference
For the EU, it marked the ascendancy of states that are not always in the Franco-German orbit. From Wordnik.com. [A BRIDGE BUILDER] Reference
The Medicare plan would ensure the ascendancy of "managed care" (HMOs and networks of doctors). From Wordnik.com. [Facing Up To Reality] Reference
With Brown stumbling after six months in office, the on-again, off-again Miliband ascendancy is on again. From Wordnik.com. [David Miliband: In Britain, a Prime Minister In Waiting] Reference
I have argued that the consent of the masses underpinned the ascendancy of the aristocracy and its survival. From Wordnik.com. ['Aristocrats'] Reference
China is turning to vocational training as a means of prolonging its economic ascendancy and quelling unrest. From Wordnik.com. [No Degrees Necessary] Reference
We brought Tunny on when the game had turned and we were in the ascendancy, and that's where Tunny's at his best. From Wordnik.com. [Gareth Bale 'best in Britain', says Harry Redknapp after win at Stoke] Reference
"Most of the time it doesn't work unless those relationships are forged before the woman's ascendancy," she says. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Gender Gap] Reference
For 53 minutes, the three faces of Bill-person, politician and policy wonk -- struggled for ascendancy, with varied results. From Wordnik.com. [The Relentless Suitor] Reference
In the struggle for ascendancy between these factions, Putin has played the arbiter, not taking sides and beholden to neither. From Wordnik.com. [Take Down] Reference
But it was yet another reminder of Rummy's ascendancy and the partial eclipse of Powell, especially since the war on terror began. From Wordnik.com. [Hawks, Doves And Dubya] Reference
The likable Couric's ascendancy to "Today" coanchor turned the show around; Zucker developed a close working relationship with her. From Wordnik.com. [Zucker Unbound] Reference
But we had to do it or lose enormous credibility with the sponsors whom we had assured that the NBA was a league on the ascendancy. From Wordnik.com. ['Virtuoso Generation'] Reference
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