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Daedalus could only watch in horror as Icarus ascended higher and higher, powerless to change his son's dire fate.
After Alexios’s death, Anna’s brother John ascended to the throne and Anna turned back to philosophy and scholarship.
After receiving his ornate crown and scepter, Henry Christophe ascended his throne, towering 20 meters in the air.
The teenage king of Bhutan was also a curious man, but this was back in 1972, when he ascended to the throne two days after his father passed away.
If AAG was Ramu's most ambitious project, he has clearly jumped off the high cliff he has ascended by giving the industry some of the greatest works of all times.
As an 18 year old innocent,Victoria ascended to her uncle's throne,thus initiating a positive orgy of intrigue and a power-struggle between Prime minister Lord Melbourne and his rival Sir Robert Peel.
With a modicum of witty repartee, some excellent carnival locations, and an unusual villain (a master spy whose cover is playing a sideshow mechanical man), this one might have ascended from third to second rate, were it not for Morris's acting (mostly a matter of flashing a grin that looks too wide for his face) and his hat (its too-small brim accentuates his big square face and makes him look stupid amongst all the elegant, wide-brimmed hats worn by everybody else, even the weaselly villains).
In point of fact Edward Tudor ascended the English throne in 1547, the son of Henry VIII and died six years later, not even reaching his maturity.
Vala swans around in the Ori home base whilst her brain dead ascended daughter dares her to open the ark and goes on walk about (maybe baking some cookies for afterward).
Meanwhile China has ascended.
He has ascended the throne of the Byzantine emperors on the Holy Mount Athos in Greece, and portrayed his perpetual presidency as a burden he must carry, in service to his country and his people.
The people may be silent for a time, as they devastatingly were at the end of another Pushkin masterpiece, the tragic play “Boris Godunov,” when a false new czar ascended to the throne.
After all, women have ascended the political ladder faster in many other countries than they have in the US.
This aligns with the more hardline policy approach that has taken root since King Salman ascended the throne in January 2015.
Last year, following the death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who ruled for a decade, his half-brother, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, ascended to the throne.
The sons of Putin’s KGB friends have also ascended quickly in the corporate world.
Now the IMF has ascended Mount Olympus.
Since 1970, the elevation at which temperatures are always below freezing has ascended almost 500 feet in the tropics.
On the day she was elected to serve another term in the post, The New York Times published a tweet accompanying an image of her: “Nancy Pelosi, wearing a hot pink dress, ascended to the marble dais in the center of the House chamber to accept the wooden gavel.”
Europe’s Partnership with MoroccoMADRID – Twenty years ago this month, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI ascended to the throne, and a new era in European-Moroccan relations began.
It wasn’t resolved with bombs, but by diplomats who had ascended from the muck of the Mekong Delta to “the treetops” in Washington, DC.
'The Princess Myagkaya guessed correctly,' thought Oblonsky as he ascended the stairs.
They were not there yet, the first could hardly have ascended a third of the shaft.
Mélanie reigned in the kitchen, watching over the roasts and stirring the sauces, the odour of which ascended to the attics.
No, not this one; on the contrary, that one, perhaps Chaval, with whom, however, a trammer declared that he had ascended.
A fissure ascended as far as Rasseneur's bar, and his front wall had cracked.
This torrent of flame carried away the captain and three workers, ascended the pit, and leapt up to the daylight in an eruption which split the rocks and the ruins around.
He got up behind Madame Grégoire and Cécile, and while the other carriage went along by the canal, theirs gently ascended the slope.
They ascended the chimney passage, soaked to the shoulders.
All that he knew was that before him, through the hole they had ascended, he had seen the flood reappear, black and moving, the beast whose back was ceaselessly swelling out to reach them.
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