The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. From LearnThat.org. [John Stuart Mill]
Rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
That idea was in the ascendant. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The economically ascendant class. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Supports lie at 95.50 zone, 95.20 and then 94.80, where we have a short term ascendant trend line. From Wordnik.com. [FXstreet.com] Reference
Everywhere in the ascendant is the desolation of space. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Souls] Reference
At my nativity, my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpio. From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend] Reference
"Fortitude in Distress" is the motto and lords of the ascendant is their practice. From Wordnik.com. [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference
But, with an ascendant Iran, Israelis are skittish. From Wordnik.com. [Stand In] Reference
The 30-year-old Texan's star has long been ascendant. From Wordnik.com. [West Wing Story: D.C. United] Reference
Freedom is now in the ascendant, and slavery must go down. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Today's seemingly ascendant ethnicities are from different parts. From Wordnik.com. [Life On The Edge] Reference
It's no surprise, then, that its art scene is similarly ascendant. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: NEW YORK: Can't-Miss Gallery Openings This Week] Reference
Veltroni, 52, is ascendant in Italian politics and a dovish liberal. From Wordnik.com. [Why Voters From Kenya to Korea Embrace The Accused] Reference
It was Jem Deady in the custody of his wife, who was now in the ascendant. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
He said repeatedly: "Glorious! glorious! my star is ever in the ascendant!". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Many look with admiration to George W. Bush's America and its ascendant religiosity. From Wordnik.com. [FIGHTING FOR GOD] Reference
If these two pieces of garbage can be best-sellers, liberals must truly be ascendant. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: We're Baaaa-Aack] Reference
Republicans may be ascendant on Capitol Hill, but they've grown skittish about abortion. From Wordnik.com. [Aborted Revolution?] Reference
It was he who had the most to lose from an ascendant Anwar Ibrahim and opposition coalition. From Wordnik.com. [Azeem Ibrahim: Drop the Charges Against Anwar Ibrahim] Reference
He went to Vienna, and when the people were in the ascendant, in October, he held a command. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
It was founded as an authoritarian state in 1923, when the authoritarian ideal was ascendant. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Kinzer: New Turkey] Reference
For most of the past two centuries the secularists have been the assertive and ascendant ones. From Wordnik.com. [Living-Room Crusaders] Reference
The featured painter this time is Alex Olson, a 2008 CalArts grad with an ascendant reputation. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: NEW YORK: Can't-Miss Gallery Openings This Week] Reference
R.E.M., ascendant in popularity since its first release in 1982, had reached its first downturn. From Wordnik.com. [R.E.M. Reinvents Itself] Reference
It will be noted that whenever lace is in the ascendant, embroidery suffers, as is quite natural. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
Still, seeing the two belief structures with such equanimity hasn't always been the ascendant view. From Wordnik.com. [Nativity Of The Jews] Reference
Their dispersion weakened the French cause at a time when that cause seemed in the ascendant, and when. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Complicating matters, the slave is leaning toward the ascendant Christianity, and Hypatia is an atheist. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: Five Art Films to See This Summer] Reference
Maybe it was taking the stage after a firecracker of an opening set by ascendant soul star Janelle Monae. From Wordnik.com. [In concert: Of Montreal at 9:30 Club] Reference
There is a fierce conflict between good and evil; but good is in the ascendant, and must triumph at last. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
On the other hand, Pinchback's star rose to the ascendant and he was elected to the United States Senate. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
That Congress was hyperkinetic, but only intensified existing tendencies of the then-ascendant liberalism. From Wordnik.com. [Look Who's Interesting] Reference
Still, if Cornyn comes close to the majority -- or even wins it -- he will be an ascendant force in the party. From Wordnik.com. [Haley Barbour sits atop GOP] Reference
Still, I asked her if it would feel strange to go from covering the ascendant Caps to one of their biggest rivals. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Hillary leaves CSN Washington for Philly] Reference
But on Friday afternoon, social conservatives meeting in the nation's capital welcomed her as their ascendant star. From Wordnik.com. [Christine O'Donnell fights back at Values Voter Summit] Reference
But our book-hunter was tired, and his evil star was in the ascendant, for he went to bed leaving the catalogue unopened. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The ascendant poet took over the literary journal in 2003, at 31, hired by a search committee to raise the Review's currency. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia Quarterly Review staffer died by his own hand, but he reached out first] Reference
Letheby's star being in the ascendant, he had a few worshippers, unenvious, except with the noble emulation of imitating him. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Man's constant search for deterministic assurance defies the ascendant science of the era, which finds nature itself as probabilistic. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations From Chairman G.] Reference
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