Meanings of personal ascendancy in English

Redmond's personal ascendancy in the Convention had become very great.

The efforts of every ruler were devoted to the establishment of his personal ascendancy over the whole group.

Apparently dismissing the subject, he applied himself to gaining a personal ascendancy over the erratic but impressionable Tsar.

Then it was only the personal ascendancy won by previous visits that could secure him against a violent impulse to revenge.

In Athens itself an unparalleled personal ascendancy was acquired by Pericles, who made the form of government and administration more democratic than before.

At that time Evander, who was an exile from the Peloponnesus, governed the country more by his personal ascendancy than by absolute sway.

And right bravely did she engage in the task, conquering her ill-health by sheer will-power, and gaining an ever greater personal ascendancy over the people.

And this determination to "have their way" was soon and startlingly manifested, and challenged the personal ascendancy of which we had heard so much.