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He's very much in the ascendant in Hollywood.
Second, they present a dual (backward) collecting semantics that records those states which occur as ascendant states of the final states.
For respondents with more than one ascendant, the person with the poorest health status was retained.
This position, if it becomes ascendant, would severely undercut the defensive importance of ' 'custom' ' as the definitive indicator of the acceptable standard of care.
There is certainly no one single characteristic or phenomenon that will be ascendant in the process of resilience over the course of development.
Yet historians have tended to reduce these struggles to a narrative of ascendant individualism.
Other aspects of comparison, however, leave one to wonder whether difference doesn't remain in the ascendant.
History as a form of rhetoric is ascendant nowadays.
And it was an act of resistance against what seemed like an ascendant materialism.
