In 1350 BC Syria did not exist, and the regional empire of Assyria was ascendant-(the king of Assyria, Ashur-uballit I also wrote letters to the pharaoh).

There were lots of single ascendent males with more credits.

I was a little taller than average for an ascendent Anglo, but not that much.

In the mid-1990s, the renewal movement seemed to be ascendent.

As an ascendent former colonel, you could name your ticket in multi security.

Within the Arab world that only reinforced his position as the ascendent leader, the man to be reckoned with.

"Ascendent background does reduce the probability of successful prosecution."

The photometer will tell which color is ascendent at the expiration of sixty seconds.

"And she's looking for an ascendent husband?"

"Love to get Deng and his ascendent friends.

Retirement is viewed in two quite distinct ways, with the ascendent viewpoint at any time depending upon the prevailing needs of the national economy.

Now the ascendent Qaeda group is led by Iraqis, mostly from Baghdad.

People deplored muggings and beatings, but who would care if an ascendent consultant got mangled or killed?

The implantation of neural devices into interrogation subjects was standard procedure in the Order, or at least it had been when he'd been ascendent.

Sweet Baby James made Taylor one of the main forces of the ascendent folk movement.

The music is strict but playful, uniform but discursive, realistic but ascendent, and traditionalist.

Ricœur soon acquired a reputation as an expert on phenomenology, then the ascendent philosophy in France.

In comparison with the 1930s Britain was in an ascendent political position in Europe and she enjoyed considerable economic advantages over her main rivals.

The references had been maddeningly vague and fragmentary, yet they'd made it plain that the Sharnhaishians were currently ascendent over the demon-jester's own guild.

In the state legislative elections of 1830, the ascendent Whig Party gained control of both houses of the General Assembly.

"You had ordered Central Four to investigate the genetic similarity between the stolen ascendent DNA and the dead cydroids.

Excluded were patients with blood transferable infections, e.g., hepatitis and HIV, and apparent ascendent placental infections.

The Vicar of Bray comically adapts his political and ecclesiastical beliefs to fit the successively ascendent government and church parties of his day.

Carlisimo was running as a PD against an ascendent advocate--Edmund "Ed" Clerihew.

This circle is divided into 12 equal parts (1st cusp is ascendent, 10th cusp is zenith), then the resulting points are projected to the ecliptic through meridian circles.

By 1878 the Cambridge route was ascendent, with times of 3 hours 12 minutes for the fastest trains comapred to a time of 4 hours 10 minutes via Ipswich.