Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Tending or directed upward.
Most powerful or important or influential.
1 Thus the Centre Party is in the ascendant in the Rhenish Provinces.
2 For centuries the building forces in western civilization were in the ascendant .
3 But the star of the junior dayroom was not in the ascendant .
4 China, on the other hand, was described as economically and militarily ascendant .
5 The military party was in the ascendant , and did as it chose.
6 Now again the hot fit of his love was in the ascendant .
7 Then his instinct of fair play in the game took the ascendant .
8 The positive temper, the attitude of realism, is everywhere in the ascendant .
9 The day passed much as usual, only Arnault appeared in the ascendant .
10 Dawood said volumes were unexceptional, but positive sentiment was in the ascendant .
11 They would now see that his star was still in the ascendant .
12 My star has not been in the ascendant for a long time.
13 His habitual melancholy had assumed the ascendant , and the cloud had returned.
14 The secular authority, long unduly depressed, regained the ascendant with startling rapidity.
15 Compromise looks like weakness to them and they are in the ascendant .
16 And the never resign tradition of Irish politics is in the ascendant .
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Ascendant в диалектах
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