Meanings of now ascendant in English

News of the betrothal between Julia and Tiberius has reached every corner of the empire and Livia is now ascendant.

Cromwell was now ascendant in England, and Major Sedgwick of Boston, in 1654, with a powerful fleet, captured Port Royal and St. John.

But in the following year, 1545, the Spanish government selected an envoy who was to bring the now ascendant star of Pizarro to eclipse.

Thence the path of brooding begins anew; but it is now ascendant, on the dual pulse of the poignant motto and the brief, nervous motive.

By contrast, the Islamic Movement in Israel, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood now ascendant in Egypt, is urging its followers to boycott Tuesday's ballot.