| The two groups have jockeyed for position ever since, with Sistani's forces in the ascendancy recently. |
| The retailer's ascendancy was expected after both companies issued their 2001 results earlier this year. |
| The global ascendancy and supremacy of the West is crucial for understanding IR even today. |
| That view gained ascendancy and credibility when the atomic bomb brought on the final surrender of Japan. |
| Ghastly pale, hovering like a ghoul, he looks as if evil has his heart in a vise. Even in his ascendancy you would never envy him. |
| His critics say he should resign because he has lost the moral ascendancy to govern and to save the plummeting economy from collapse. |
