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Example sentences for: ascendancy

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The United States can promote moderation, but cannot ensure its ascendancy.
The 18th century was not a good time for the native Irish, but the Protestant Ascendancy flourished.
In the central region, from the Loire Valley to Belgium, Hugues Capet succeeded in achieving a precarious ascendancy, and was crowned the first king of France in 987.
Even so, its ascendancy is troublesome.
An obsequious 1992 New York Times Magazine profile put it this way: "In the Governor's office, Weld has restored a tradition of aristocratic Yankee lordship, he has made governing look easy and WASP ascendancy seem an expression of natural law, if not of divine right."