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- adverb In an
ascending manner.
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Examples
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His poems – scrupulous, precise and ascendingly lovely – are true and wise: they speak to us of the big things, of birth, marriage and, above all, death.
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His pyramidal image of a set of norms linked ascendingly to a basic norm reveals the essentially common features of the legislative and judicial roles, for both judge and legislator are creating new legal norms while at the same time drawing upon and applying superior norms which confer validity upon their actions.
CONCEPT OF LAW GRAHAM HUGHES 1968
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His pyramidal image of a set of norms linked ascendingly to a basic norm reveals the essentially common features of the legislative and judicial roles, for both judge and legislator are creating new legal norms while at the same time drawing upon and applying superior norms which confer validity upon their actions.
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_This neighbor's own opinion has, in like manner, been adopted from one above him, and so, ascendingly, to a few gifted individuals who kneel around the summit, beholding, face to face, the master spirit who stands upon the pinnacle.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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· The generated code allows users to sort data by any field ascendingly or descendingly.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010
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His poems - scrupulous, precise and ascendingly lovely - are true and wise: they speak to us of the big things, of birth, marriage and, above all, death.
RosieBell 2010
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