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These resented the ascendancy of the women, and grumbled about them or made vulgar jokes, and in their turn the women considered them weaklings or slackers and held them in ill-disguised contempt.† (source)
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The nature of the circus trainer's ascendancy is psychological.† (source)
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What I mean is that since the preponderance of cultural influences has come down to us from European early settlers, and since those early settlers inflicted their values on the "benighted" cultures they encountered ("benighted," from the Old English, meaning "anyone darker than myself"), those inflicted values have gained ascendancy.† (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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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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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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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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In effect, while it lasted, this ascendancy of the "r"—less pronunciation amounted to a nascent American standard, and broadcasting helped provide a justification.† (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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Would you prefer a nuclear holocaust, laboratory plague, or technological singularity to my ascendancy?† (source)
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His ascendency was extraordinary.† (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 liked their elegance, their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed the natural sign of social ascendency.† (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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