Ascendancy

The ascendancy of monarchs is what keeps their subjects from rebellion.

He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy.

He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy, so much so that, on dying, he left the place to her for her lifetime, as well as the larger part of his income; an arrangement that was distinctly unfair to his two sons.

Spurs ended the half in the ascendancy and Van der Vaart was again inches away from giving them the lead when he met Bale's cross but his header flew wide.

The Tory hard right is in the ascendancy, and a fascist street movement – led by convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson – represents a growing threat.

[W. B. Yeats] belonged not to the ascendancy class but to the protestant bourgeoisie.

True, the “ascendancy” remained a crucial and significant governing class in Irish life, and would remain so for generations.

Ascendency was found to be a useful indicator for the health assessment of marine benthic ecosystems over space and time.