The hypothesized co-occupation of the valley means that there were no invaders and no "invaded" population but, rather, two distinct interacting groups competing for ascendancy.
I suggest that the critics have gained ascendancy mainly because the defence has been neither multi-dimensional nor multi-national.
The reproduction of their families and the reproduction of their relations with the state reinforced each other as strategies for the perpetuation of their ascendancy.
A more diffused growth pattern stressing metropolitan planning and mainland development through a satellite city gains ascendancy.
Yet his ascendancy owed more to the internal politics of the new ruling party than to his religious identity.
Thus, when structur-alist linguistics was in the ascendancy, the content of language courses was specified in terms of sentence patterns.
A variety of convenient features have led to its ascendancy.
There need have been no signs in the arm; the bacteraemia could have silently gained ascendancy.
