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Ivanka Trump's star is ascendant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and around the world, too.
Gillian Turner /
Pennsylvania
Ascendant
Avenue
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart Mill / Philosopher
Power
Inspiration
Mankind
Mediocrity
Among
Ascendant
General
Render
Tendency
Throughout
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We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
Joe Lieberman / Former United States Senator
Core
Core Values
Military
Strongest
Freedom Opportunity World
Ascendant
Globe
Largest
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This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.
John Tyler / 10Th U.s. President
Constitution
Flexible
Influence
Made
Materials
Ascendant
Casually
Composed
Day
Nor
Purposes
Warped
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The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
John Aubrey / Writer
Men
Lord
Oxford
Patron
Religious
Saturn
Writing
Ascendant
Historians
Planet
Whose
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If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.
William Lilly / Astrologer
Bewitched
Cattle
House
Judgment
People
Vary
Great Your People
Rules
Ascendant
Great People Your
Suspect
Twelfth
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
Zhang Zhidong /
Buddhism
Christianity
Influence
Ascendant
Decadent
Demons
Passed
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Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.
Krystal Ball /
Blue
Certainty
Inevitability
Ascendant
Coalition
Donald Trump
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When he ran for president in 2008, Mr. Obama was the candidate of the young and the demographically ascendant. He eventually attracted strong majorities among African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and voters under 30.
Joy Reid /
Ran
Voters
Ascendant
Attracted
Candidate
Hispanics
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The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.
Wil S. Hylton /
Lurking
Social Justice
Tragedy
Vindication
Wealth
Ascendant
Demons
Inner
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Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Iran
Oil
Significant
Vice Versa
Vices
Ascendant
Historically
Low
Oil Prices
Relatively
Prices
Radicals
Subdued
Topple
Versa
Vice
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You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.
George Saunders / Writer
Kids
Armani
Dresses
Games
Materialism
Parent
Ascendant
Cloth
Other Kids
Rampant
Sack
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I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.
Steve-O / Stunt Performer
Cease
Entertainment
Entertainment Industry
Existence
Identity
Ascendant
Contemplated
Freaked
Occurred
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Donald Trump's mini-me, Boris Johnson, is in the ascendant: the Tory crown is his to lose. But his colleagues know he's an incompetent, a man who cares only for himself, who was fired twice - by a newspaper editor and a party leader - over allegations of dishonesty.
Owen Jones / Columnist
Allegations
Colleagues
Dishonesty
Incompetent
Johnson
Who Cares
Ascendant
Cares
Crown
Editor
Fired
Newspaper
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I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.
Junot Diaz / Writer
Diet
Anime
Crippled
Decades
Falling In Love
Japan
Retrospect
Samurai
Steady
Surprising
Tokyo
Ascendant
Bubble
Burst
Fed
Grown
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