Well, in outline it defined the position of Great Britain towards the Triple Alliance in the event of the French fleet gaining complete ascendancy over Italy in the Mediterranean.
In the past, when the first, second, and third generation of Baruch clan members were all Dragonblood Warriors, the clan was in its glorious ascendancy.
" What must I promise" ? demanded Cora, still maintaining a secret ascendancy over the fierce native by the collected and feminine dignity of her presence.
We will have a full session Wednesday. My best regards to you both. You will have most pleasant dreams this evening. And again, all of your energies are in ascendancy.
This group is in the ascendancy both politically and financially: bitcoin has risen in price by more than 130% in the past year, trouncing returns from traditional assets.
The whole ascendancy of the winter wavered between the effort of the cotton States to drag Virginia out, and the effort of the new President to keep Virginia in.
The Origins of Totalitarianism 极权主义的起源 汉娜·阿伦特 by Tom
Whatever the causes for American ascendancy to world power, the deliberate pursuit of a foreign policy leading to it or any claim to global rule are not among them.
For most of the period since then it was market forces, rather than the state, that have been in the ascendancy across the West, even when centre-left governments have been in power.
150. A cocktail of violence, poverty, and in some places, a near total breakdown of the state, has led to the ascendancy of Salafism, an extremist strain of political Islam with roots in Saudi Arabia.
'Be generous, Alphonso, ' She said; 'You possess my heart, but use not the gift ignobly. Employ not your ascendancy over me in persuading me to take a step, at which I should hereafter have to blush.