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ascension as in:  ascension to the throne

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  • Their ascension to grace was jumpstarted in 1982 when Pope John Paul II unexpectedly elevated them to a "personal prelature of the Pope," officially sanctioning all of their practices.   (source)
    ascension = movement upward--literal or figurative
  • Annie had congratulated her on her transparency, on her ascension, as Annie put it, but then had become very busy.   (source)
  • Harold Crosby, delaying his ascension in the often-faulty angel-apparatus, had twice requested a "last" visit to the men's room.   (source)
  • Finnick goes back to Snow's political ascension, which I know nothing of, and works his way up to the present, pointing out case after case of the mysterious deaths of Snow's adversaries or, even worse, his allies who had the potential to become threats.   (source)
  • I explained why we needed to wake the sun god—the threat of Apophis's ascension, mass chaos and destruction, the world about to end at sunrise, et cetera.   (source)
  • The book of Acts flashed into my head, the scene of Jesus' ascension, when Jesus told the disciples that they would be his witnesses, that they would tell people all over the world about him.   (source)
  • The leader of this coalition was a man named Laurent-Désiré Kabila, a former Marxist rebel who had been educated in France and was, until his rapid ascension to power, a relative unknown in Congo.   (source)
  • She surveyed the waiting audience, then said, "The elves honor Ajihad tonight...And on behalf of Queen Islanzadi, I recognize Nasuada's ascension and offer her the same support and friendship we extended to her father."   (source)
  • She was not seen to cry during the ascension to heaven of Remedios the Beauty or over the extermination of the Aurelianos or the death of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who was the person she loved most in this world, although she showed it only when they found his body under the chestnut tree.   (source)
  • So this terrifying ascension was most difficult for him, perched as he was on the neck of the giant.   (source)
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  • Opposition to the war, as everyone knew, was stronger and more vociferous in London than anywhere in the country, yet here were crowds greater than any since his ascension to the throne.   (source)
  • His ascension has been unlikely.   (source)
  • But she has also enjoyed the birth of two healthy children, Caroline and John Jr., and the stunning ascension of her dashing young husband from a Massachusetts politician to president of the United States.   (source)
  • The first thing her father had done on his ascension was to expel his own father's grasping, lowborn mistress from Casterly Rock.   (source)
  • Many attributed Judson's ascension through party ranks in part to his smooth political sagacity and in part to Prudence Crandall.   (source)
  • They feared being so light that the only word that could describe what would happen to them was ascension.   (source)
  • His arms were folded as he watched the ascension of his men.   (source)
  • The journey toward this particular truth was not an ascension toward a glorious light but a descent into darkness, chaos, the maelstrom.   (source)
  • MOSES ON MT. SINAI, THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST, MOHAMMED AND THE MOUNTAIN, LAO TSE AND THE MOON, THE REVELATION OF MARY BAKER EDDY, THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD BUDDHA, THE UNVEILING OF THE TRUE AND ONLY GOD GALAXY...   (source)
  • ...and there was an Ascension in which the Saviour seemed to surge up towards the empyrean and yet to stand upon the air as steadily as though it were solid ground: the uplifted arms of the Apostles, the sweep of their draperies, their ecstatic gestures, gave an impression of exultation and of holy joy.   (source)
    ascension = movement upward to heaven
  • High, steep, and rugged, it resisted ascension.   (source)
    ascension = movement upward--literal or figurative
  • The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension.   (source)
  • All of them, however unspiritual on other days, were transfigured by the Sabbath influence; so that their very garments—whether it were an old man's decent coat well brushed for the thousandth time, or a little boy's first sack and trousers finished yesterday by his mother's needle—had somewhat of the quality of ascension-robes.   (source)
  • Thus the difficulty of ascension, in the present case, lay more in semblance than in reality.   (source)
  • Beyond the gate was a steep ascension of spiral stairs.   (source)
  • He reached out to Glaedr, and the old dragon fed him energy to sustain his ascension.   (source)
  • A few feet of ascension was possible if you kicked wildly, but no more.   (source)
  • There were arrows predicting elliptical orbits, geometric symbols indicating angles of ascension, and zodiacal creatures peering down at her.   (source)
  • His would be a merciful ascension.   (source)
  • We won't oppose her ascension.   (source)
  • All the other degrees can be attained by successful completion of the previous degree, but ascension to the thirty-third degree is controlled.   (source)
  • What else do we sing at an untimely death, what else but that catchy number that is categorized in The Pilgrim Hymnal as a favorite hymn of "ascension and reign"—the popular "Crown Him with Many Crowns," a real organ-breaker?   (source)
  • "One afternoon in September the Adams family, Jefferson, and "eight or ten thousand" others attended one of the celebrated Paris spectacles of the time, a balloon ascension from the Tuileries Gardens."   (source)
  • Baker would have known that if Lincoln were assassinated, ascension to the presidency could eventually fall to Stanton—the man who opposed Lincoln's candidacy in 1860.   (source)
  • ASCENSION The Drums of Derva sounded, summoning the dwarves of Tronjheim to witness the coronation of their new king.   (source)
  • It's like floating in the clear summer shallows of the Aegean, or the separation of the body from its sensations prior to the separation of the senses from the soul before the soul's ascension.   (source)
  • It was not a hopeless fall, for as they shot downward they fought the air, and, ascending momentarily with great strain, they sailed off to left or right, and circled about on the plateau they had marked, before another dizzying drop, another spreading of wings, and another partial ascension.   (source)
  • That their Preaching also after his ascension was the same, is manifest out of Acts 17.6.   (source)
  • When Jesus, Son of Mary, second Eve,
    Saw Satan fall, like lightning, down from Heaven,
    Prince of the air; then, rising from his grave
    Spoiled Principalities and Powers, triumphed
    In open show; and, with ascension bright,
    Captivity led captive through the air,
    The realm itself of Satan, long usurped;   (source)
  • By nature he knew each ascension
    Of th' equinoctial in thilke town;   (source)
    ascension = movement upward
  • Ware that the sun, in his ascension,
    You finde not replete of humours hot;   (source)
    ascension = movement upward--literal or figurative
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Ascension as in:  Ascension holiday

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  • So after Ascension Day I keep them recta* an extra hour every Wednesday.   (source)
    Ascension Day = Christianity:  celebration of the rising of Christ into heaven
  • ...on the last feast of the Ascension, to wit, the twelfth day of May of...   (source)
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  • Presumably, the bells of the Church of the Ascension had been reclaimed by the Bolsheviks for the manufacture of artillery, thus returning them to the realm from whence they came.   (source)
    ascension = part of a name
  • Another inventor, J. B. McComber, representing the Chicago-Tower Spiral-Spring Ascension and Toboggan Transportation Company, proposed a tower with a height of 8,947 feet, nearly nine times the height of the Eiffel Tower, with a base one thousand feet in diameter sunk two thousand feet into the earth.   (source)
  • Tia Concha became Aunt Conchshell, and Tia Asuncion, Aunt Ascension; Tio Mundo was Uncle World; Paloma, our model cousin, turned into Pigeon, and for spite we surnamed her, accurately, Toed.   (source)
  • Ascension, in its world premiere at the Nelly Regina Theater, is the stunning debut by choreographer Petra Echevarri, recent graduate of Juilliard and winner of the Princess Grace Award.   (source)
    ascension = a name in this novel
  • Ascension to a paradise that in one version was merely "a feeling," a sense of power, of unassailable superiority-sensations that in another version were transposed into "A red place."   (source)
    ascension = physical movement upward or to heaven
  • Planes arrived for Milo from airfields in Italy, North Africa and England, and from Air Transport Command stations in Liberia, Ascension Island, Cairo, and Karachi.   (source)
    ascension = part of a name
  • The nuns told her it was like a Holy Ascension except Papi was dressed to go dancing.   (source)
    ascension = physical movement upward to heaven
  • Rubber Plant: The Ascension, it's called.   (source)
  • She felt a little calmer then, and bought Fra Angelico's "Coronation," Giotto's "Ascension of St. John," some Della Robbia babies, and some Guido Reni Madonnas.   (source)
    ascension = physical movement upward
  • "Have you been to the Church of the Ascension?" he suddenly asked him, with stern emphasis.   (source)
    ascension = part of a name
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  • Mother Ascension will be there.   (source)
  • The gaunt oak-cased clock, with the picture of the Ascension on the door-panel and the Miraculous Draught of Fishes on the base; his grandmother's corner cupboard with the glass door, through which the spotted china was visible; the dumb-waiter; the wooden tea-trays; the hanging fountain with the brass tap—whither would these venerable articles have to be banished?   (source)
    ascension = physical movement upward to heaven
  • London reached, the travellers alight, the old housekeeper in great tribulation and confusion, Mrs. Bagnet quite fresh and collected—as she would be if her next point, with no new equipage and outfit, were the Cape of Good Hope, the Island of Ascension, Hong Kong, or any other military station.   (source)
    ascension = part of a name
  • Another singular thing is that the principal culprit in the matter is a scoundrel of a barber living in the Ascension Avenue, who is now safely locked up.   (source)
  • Back in the troika they would charge across the countryside, cutting through the village of Petrovskoye, where the Church of the Ascension stood not far from its monastery's walls.   (source)
  • The bells of Ascension ... When the Count had passed through Petrovskoye in 1918 on his hurried return from Paris, he had come upon a gathering of peasants milling in mute consternation before the monastery's walls.   (source)
  • Though for all the Count knew, the cannons that had been salvaged from Napoleon's retreat to make the Ascension's bells had been forged by the French from the bells at La Rochelle; which in turn had been forged from British blunderbusses seized in the Thirty Years' War.   (source)
  • But as they came to the bend in the road where the Count would normally give a snap of the reins to speed the horses home, Helena would place a hand on his arm to signal that he should slow the team—for midnight had just arrived, and a mile behind them the bells of Ascension had begun to swing, their chimes cascading over the frozen land in holy canticle.   (source)
  • Ascension Transcends   (source)
    ascension = a name in this novel
  • Ascension!   (source)
  • He was referring to the fresco of the "Ascension of St. John."   (source)
    ascension = physical movement upward
  • On the Ascension Avenue there lived a barber of the name of Ivan Jakovlevitch.   (source)
    ascension = part of a name
  • There will be in the chapel only the four Mother Precentors, Mother Ascension and yourself.   (source)
  • Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you.   (source)
  • What Church of Ascension?   (source)
  • An old apple-woman on the Ascension Bridge may carry on her business without one, but since I am on the look out for a post; besides in many houses I am acquainted with ladies of high position—Madame Tchektyriev, wife of a state-councillor, and many others.   (source)
  • where St. Peter, to prove the Ascension of Christ, using the words of the Psalmist,   (source)
    ascension = physical movement upward or to heaven
  • "Receive yee the Holy Spirit;" and after his Ascension (Acts 2.2, 3.)   (source)
  • After our Saviours Ascension, the Christians of every City lived in Common,   (source)
  • For it was long after the Ascension, before any King, or Civill Soveraign embraced, and publiquely allowed the teaching of Christian Religion.   (source)
  • The men to whom St. Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, next after the Ascension of our Saviour, asked him, and the rest of the Apostles, saying,   (source)
  • My second Argument is taken from the Subject of the Sermons of the Apostles, both whilest our Saviour lived on earth, and after his Ascension.   (source)
  • Our Saviour therefore between his Resurrection, and Ascension, gave his Spirit to the Apostles; first, by "Breathing on them, and saying," (John 20.22.)   (source)
  • And then there is another place more difficult: For when the Apostles after our Saviours Resurrection, and immediately before his Ascension, asked our Saviour, saying, (Acts.1.6.)   (source)
  • For the understanding of POWER ECCLESIASTICALL, what, and in whom it is, we are to distinguish the time from the Ascension of our Saviour, into two parts; one before the Conversion of Kings, and men endued with Soveraign Civill Power; the other after their Conversion.   (source)
  • The time between the Ascension, and the generall Resurrection, is called, not a Reigning, but a Regeneration; that is, a Preparation of men for the second and glorious coming of Christ, at the day of Judgment; as appeareth by the words of our Saviour, Mat.   (source)
  • Thus is the Lamb of God equivalent to both those Goates; sacrificed, in that he dyed; and escaping, in his Resurrection; being raised opportunely by his Father, and removed from the habitation of men in his Ascension.   (source)
  • The Writers of the New Testament lived all in lesse then an age after Christs Ascension, and had all of them seen our Saviour, or been his Disciples, except St. Paul, and St. Luke; and consequently whatsoever was written by them, is as ancient as the time of the Apostles.   (source)
  • To which it is easily answered, that our Saviour himself appeared to him in the way to Damascus, from Heaven, after his Ascension; "and chose him for a vessell to bear his name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and Children of Israel;" and consequently (having seen the Lord after his passion) was a competent Witnesse of his Resurrection: And as for Barnabas, he was a Disciple before the Passion.   (source)
  • where hee sayes, that Christ after his Ascension into heaven, "gave gifts to men, some Apostles, some Prophets, and some Evangelists, and some Pastors, and some Teachers:" And thence inferres, they have indeed their Jurisdiction in Gods Right; but will not grant they have it immediately from God, but derived through the Pope.   (source)
  • On the other side, I have not found any text that can probably be drawn, to prove any Ascension of the Saints into Heaven; that is to say, into any Coelum Empyreum, or other aetheriall Region; saving that it is called the Kingdome of Heaven; which name it may have, because God, that was King of the Jews, governed them by his commands, sent to Moses by Angels from Heaven, to reduce them to their obedience; and shall send him thence again, to rule both them, and all other faithfull men, from the day of Judgment, Everlastingly: or from that, that the Throne of this our Great King is in Heaven; whereas the Earth is but his Footstoole.   (source)
  • Ascension Into Heaven   (source)
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