Ascendant

(noun.) position or state of being dominant or in control; 'that idea was in the ascendant'.

(adj.) most powerful or important or influential; 'the economically ascendant class'; 'D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe' .

(adj.) tending or directed upward; 'rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage'- John Ruskin .

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• Across it Egypt, and whatever power was ascendant in the north, fought for empire; against its people they fought for a trade route. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Oh, star ascendant at my birth! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Both in England and on the Continent the ascendant rulers seized upon Christianity as a unifying force to cement their conquests. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For a time, after the death of Ali, the Omayyad family was in the ascendant, and for nearly a century they gave rulers to Islam. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The caste system Yuan Chwang found fully established in spite of Buddha, and the Brahmins were now altogether in the ascendant. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By sea or land men want no Powers ascendant, but only law and service. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At first Athens was in the ascendant, then Sparta. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He who is watching the ascendant ideas of American life can afford to feel that the early maxims of capitalism are doomed. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Do you think my fortunate star is in the ascendant? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• For a time Egypt was the ascendant power. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The luctuosa hereditas, the mournful succession of ascendants to descendants, to the twentieth penny only. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Direct successions, or those of descendants to ascendants, pay no tax. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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