ascendents in a sentence

Examples

1. After four years in which reality shows have been ascendent, it turns out scripted fare isn't dead after all.
2. Mohammad Amon well remembers the night in 1997 when fighters of the then-ascendent Taliban militia dragged him from his bed in Kabul.
3. He has called " Nebraska " his most personal album, but it also indicts the smug certainties of the then ascendent Reagan era.
4. The society has set its effective date as 1370, during the Hundred Years War at a time when the English were ascendent against the Armies of France.
5. By using the ascendent's nakshatra, instead of the Moon's nakshatra leads more to comfort of the Self, rather than comfort of the mother.
6. Hegel's star was in the ascendent, while Schelling's other road led into the wilderness, at least as far as academic respectability was concerned.
7. By 1878 the Cambridge route was ascendent, with times of 3 hours 12 minutes for the fastest trains compared to a time of 4 hours 10 minutes via Ipswich.
8. Locke's presence has added significance because he's become a symbol of Chinese-American integration in American politics, a role model for ascendent Asian-Americans.
9. In 1929 the steam drifter " Ascendent " caught a tunny and a Scarborough showman awarded the crew 50 shillings so he could exhibit it as a tourist attraction.
10. 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.