ascendency

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• Could this mountain metropolis be the third stop and final launching pad of the ascendency of a major civilizational power?
• Ascendency quantifies growth and development of an ecosystem as a product of total system throughflow and the mutual information inherent in the pattern of internal system flows.
• The "loyal opposition" now seems more interested in ensuring its "ascendency" than in serving the whole of the American people. Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency"
• = Probably Sirius, the Dog Star, under whose ascendency, according to ancient beliefs, epidemic diseases prevailed. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems
• Do they promulgate a conservative ascendency when they fail to draw real lines between them and the other party? Meet Rob Simmons (R CAND, CT-SEN). | RedState
• Wes Clark chose his, and the other team, some of whom are currently in ascendency, are still trying to exact a price. Archive 2004-01-01
• Lady Rice, Angelica and Jelly: Lady Rice and Angelica fight it out for ascendency: Jelly is Angelica's creature. SPLITTING
• He was blunt in his bearing, saying things which her father would have called indelicate and heartless, as though they gave him no effort, and placing himself at once almost in a position of ascendency. The Belton Estate
• This noted personage is a Eutaw by birth, but forsook his own people and joined the Py-Euts, after he became a man, and by his prowess and bravery, acquired such an ascendency over the tribe of his adoption, as to become their principal chief. Life in the Rocky Mountains
• This era also coincided with the ascendency of the photography fine art market, and the deskilling of photographic apparatus to the point where amateurs became capable of producing commercial-quality images.