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Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency"
Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency" 2009
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In an above quote, I compare our current politics, "The war of the Neocon Ascendency in American Politics" to WWII in Europe.
Reid To Bush: If You Come After Us, We'll Hit Back Every Bit As Aggressively 2009
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The primacies radiate away from a central 'ocean' where the great city, and power base of the Tarig, the Ascendency resides.
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There was also some clunky writing used to describe Titus 'feelings during his stay in the Ascendency.
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In the world where Magic rules, the last four clans of witches meet on the summer solstice for the Rite of Ascendency ceremony.
Image Comics Solicitations for August 2007 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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In the world where Magic rules, the last four clans of witches meet on the summer solstice for the Rite of Ascendency ceremony.
Image Comics Sneak Peek of the Week | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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He had an Ascendency, an Authority over the People here as absolute, as that of any Prince in Europe not excepting his Holiness.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774, "I have nothing to do here..." 1963
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Means by which it Gained Ascendency -- The Place and Influence of the
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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Ascendency, "and in another he thus characteristically comments upon Mr. Murphy's fears that a pessimistic book on the status of the Negro written by a supposed authority (a colored man) would do wide-reaching harm:" Of course among
Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization Emmett Jay 1916
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After this follows a group of letters which passed between him and the late Edgar Gardiner Murphy, author of "The Present South," "The Basis of Ascendency," and other important books.
Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Lyman Beecher Stowe 1915
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