ascendency

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• Yet despite this, its ascendency is no less compelling than that of the Bay Area.

• But nowhere was this middle class ascendency more dramatic than in Europe, first in Italy and later in northern Europe.

• In the long run, the biggest threat to the Sunbelt ascendency is internal.

• Talent has been on the ascendency for so long—30 years—it takes winning for granted.

• Her lofty dreams gained a daily increasing ascendency over her character.

• She had involuntarily gained that entire ascendency over his whole being which made her the world to him.

• The mob, headed by the Jacobins, had now the complete ascendency, and he was minister but in name.

• Danton, Marat, and Robespierre were now in the ascendency, riding with resistless power upon the billows of mob violence.

• Traffic by sea was the great source of their wealth; ascendency on the sea the great object of their ambition.