ascendancy
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And here in the United States, a recurring theme of the Gingrich Ascendancy is that this or that Federal Government program should be turned over to the states.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ascendancy of me-and-mine was meaningless, belonged to orders of awareness lower than intelligence that they could meet in partnership.
From Eight Keys to Eden by Clifton, Mark
There is the philosophical view, represented by Edgar Gardiner Murphy's "The Basis of Ascendancy."
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various
The Ascendancy of Monarchy.—Outside of Switzerland the faint beginning of popular representation was gradually overcome by the ascendancy of monarchy.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
They formed, with Dublin Castle, part of the great machinery of Protestant Ascendancy.
From Home Rule Second Edition by Spender, Harold
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