Meanings of political ascendency in English

That the political ascendency of the English is paramount here is apparent.

These great families combined in their hands financial, warlike, and political ascendency.

Having secured their present domination, they sought to perpetuate their political ascendency in the Territory.

It was in no sense a religious war, but a desperate struggle for political ascendency.

From Clive's second visit to India dates the political ascendency of the English in that country.

When humiliated and stung by the political ascendency of their former bondmen, they wrapped themselves in their social superiority with a new haughtiness.

This radical difference, if carried into party action, would lose them the political ascendency they had so long maintained, and were then enjoying.

He could break into fragments the political ascendency of the snob, "semi-detached" villa classes, in half the Parliamentary divisions they now controlled.