Usage examples for ascendancy
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Adonijah
had
obtained
the
ascendancy,
both
in
respect
of
actual
possession,
and
the
inclinations
and
consent
of
the
majority
of
the
nation;
the
consent
was
general;
1
Kings,
i,
5,
7,
9,
11,
18,
25,
and
ii,
15.
He
had
all
to
plead
for
himself,
which
Seceders
make
essential
to
the
constitution
of
a
lawful
king.
– Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by The Reformed Presbytery
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It
was
the
Russian
menace
to
India
and
Persia
on
the
one
hand,
and
the
German
ascendancy
on
the
other,
which
compelled
her
to
clasp
our
hands.
– The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard