Significados de great ascendancy en inglés

His wife, young, beautiful, active, and ambitious, gained great ascendancy over him.

Accordingly, certain kitsune-mochi have obtained great ascendancy over the communities in which they live.

Jesuit missionaries generally resided among them, who obtained a great ascendancy in their councils.

But as he possesses great ascendancy over my mother, you must force yourself to yield somewhat.

From that day Tom acquired a great ascendancy in the office, and Gilray became his devoted slave.

It is a great ascendancy, and only a man's honest blindness could suppose that any woman would be content under it.

This was the first great ascendancy which England obtained over Scotland; and indeed the first important transaction which had passed between the kingdoms.

Those who to these talents add that of reading and writing, become very dangerous monsters, and thus acquire a very great ascendancy over their companions.

The more a religion is absurd and filled with wonders, the greater ascendancy it acquires over them.

This was the precise period at which the pope and his adherents were gaining the greatest ascendancy in the Christian world.

Louis XV did not flatter himself that he could effect this prodigy, but he hoped to have a greater ascendancy over his minister.

Of all the popular leaders, Mirabeau had perhaps the greatest ascendancy over the court, because he was the most winning, and had the strongest mind.