ascendancy

"They need to keep that momentum. Right now, the ascendancy is with Liverpool. Liverpool play Man City in a couple of weeks," he added.

They consciously deployed the nostalgic language of feudalism as a political smokescreen to obscure their moves to consolidate the cultural, political and economic power that would sustain their elevated social positions and the collective ascendancy of their race.

Their sound was an anomaly during the ascendancy of punk rock, and they struggled to get gigs outside London.

A rise in pregnancy criminalization reflects the ascendancy of fetal personhood as the central objective of the anti-abortion movement, to be sure.

But Argentina were quickly back in the ascendancy as Juan Cruz Mallia opened his account with a finish out wide.