Significados de gain the ascendency en inglés

Each son endeavors to gain the ascendency by enticing away the followers of the others.

That explains why superstition thrives with ignorance and slavery, and expires when science and liberty gain the ascendency.

But again his fears gain the ascendency, and his hand refuses to obey the dictates of his angry heart.

Still, hope would gain the ascendency, and affected her spirits with a degree of cheerfulness unfelt for many months.

Soon these favored ones gain the ascendency, and the less favored perish, and the modification becomes established in the species.

Struggle as she might to be intensely dramatic in her narrative, she did not for a moment gain the ascendency.

Whenever the first seemed likely to gain the ascendency, the latter rose in their turn, like Antaeus from earth, with renovated strength.

When a very calm, self-possessed person allows feeling or passion to gain the ascendency over them, they are invested for the moment with overmastering power.

And whenever she gained the ascendency by her charms, she was tyrannical.

The Silver Ferns gained the ascendency again, while Watson inspired with another block-like intercept.

The church, having gained the ascendency, sought then to enslave the kings of the earth.

When that party gained the ascendency, not finding himself sufficiently rewarded, he joined the captains.

The strongest party gains the ascendency, and keeps it if it can-neverby old, constituted laws.

Protestantism had gained the ascendency in Poland, and a large majority of the nobles united upon Maximilian.

Gradually the imperial arms gained the ascendency.

Charles Martel gains the ascendency in Austrasia; he contends against Chilperic II, the successor of Dagobert in Neustria.