Sample Sentences forascendancy (auto-selected)
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The gas, you see, is of lower molecular weight than the surrounding atmosphere, and that is what will allow for ascendancy.† (source)
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The sudden need of Paul's ascendancy overrode all other consideration, and she barked, "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!"† (source)
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It is therefore deeply tragic that Jerusalem should have become a bone of contention—with people killing each other by the thousand because they cannot agree on who is to have ascendancy over this "Eternal City."† (source)
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What Esthappen and Rahel witnessed that morning, though they didn't know it then, was a clinical demonstration in controlled conditions (this was not war after all, or genocide) of human nature's pursuit of ascendancy.† (source)
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Not his ascendancy alone, however, held me in thrall at present.† (source)
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In order to establish my ascendancy once and for all, I determined to visit the wolf esker itself the following morning and make a detailed examination of the presumed den.† (source)
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I knew nothing about the duality of man's nature when I was eighteen, but I knew about the presence of my guerrilla, and as the months wore on, I knew that I would have to deal with his ascendancy.† (source)
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She could not board with one family for more than one term, for that would cause jealousy—a family gained social ascendency by boarding the teacher.† (source)
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Would you prefer a nuclear holocaust, laboratory plague, or technological singularity to my ascendancy?† (source)
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According to this account and what was subsequently learned, it seemed that the scaramouch in question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody in the Jeroboam.† (source)
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possibly some dim hope that Senator McCarthy, and others of his persuasion, in those days having achieved a certain ascendancy over the rich cretins from across the sea, would somehow refocus attention on the fallen of WWII, especially ones whose corpses had never been found;† (source)
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Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.† (source)
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In the first place, he is what we used to call in my young days a Gentleman of the Ascendancy.† (source)
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His ascendency was extraordinary.† (source)
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His hatred, like a powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong ascendancy which Mercedes exercised over him.† (source)
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It was interesting to see the ascendency which the uneducated woman, bound to him by no legal tie, had acquired over the brilliant, unstable man.† (source)
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