(n.) Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
(n.) An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interpretation of scans was equivocal in another 18% of patients due to undetectable ascension of the tracer to the uterus.
(2) Particular interest is paid to trisomy 21 in which all recognizable stereotyped morphological skull and brain malformations are depicted with magnetic resonance and some other malformations demonstrated such as the excessive forward bending and ascension of the brainstem which correlated well with a simian cephalic organization.
(3) It was also clear it was going to be a close contest, and heated by the antagonism between the incumbent president, Joyce Banda, and her main rival, Peter Mutharika, who led an earlier effort to block her rightful ascension to power.
(4) Several parameters exhibited characteristic changes during anoxia and reoxygenation: during the first minutes of reoxygenation in the ascension of the first peak the 'time to peak force', the 'relaxation time' and the 'area under the contraction curve', especially the part below the relaxation, were strongly but only transiently increased.
(5) In other items, the MoD spent: • £2.2m on rents and rates to the Ascension Island government whose airport the RAF uses for planes flying to the Falkands.
(6) Abbott has in an interview with Fairfax unleashed a fresh tirade about Julie Bishop , accusing her of peddling falsehoods about the events leading up to Turnbull’s ascension.
(7) Purnell's ascension to the backbenches will add to the many meetings Cruddas has been convening in the last few days to figure out what to do.
(8) The ascension of Justin Welby to archbishop of Canterbury is confirmation of the quiet parallel rise of a controversial evangelical church in central London to become the most influential congregation in the Church of England.
(9) Activity was temperature dependent and no obvious preference of vegetation species for ascension was detected.
(10) Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency has been marked with tough talk on China and he has surrounded himself with a clique of China-bashing advisers.
(11) It started off with great promise, we got a room with a view, we got an extra staff member – but not much else,” Day said of Turnbull’s ascension to the prime ministership in September last year.
(12) Based upon the drag calculations for young turtles, it is estimated that adult turtles making the round-trip breeding migration between Brazil and Ascension Island (4800 km) would require the equivalent of about 21% of their body mass in fat stores to account for the energetic cost of swimming.
(13) The demonstrated postoperativ ascension of bacteria in the upper urinary tract in spite of successfull surgical treatment cannot be taken as an argument against operation.
(14) Reflux is not the cause of the ascension of microorganisms into the urinary bladder, yet it enables bacteria to reach the kidney and fosters pyelonephritis, persistent infections and nephropathy with all its consequences.
(15) Marked improvement in mictional disorders was obtained also in the 3rd case after excision of a sacral extradural lipoma and section of the filum terminale, allowing objective ascension of the medullary cone by 4 cm.
(16) The best correlations between echo and phonocardiography are the values of aortic valve opening and : --hemi-ascension time (r = 0.67); --left ventricular ejectiontime (r = 0.93) when patients in cardiac failure are excluded.
(17) The sonographically determined ascension of the bladder content into the renal pelvis is called "positive MSU".
(18) This observation suggested that urine taxis of gram-negative bacteria promotes their invasion of the human lower urinary tract and their ascension to the kidney(s).
(19) Estrogens cause softening, opening, and ascension of the cervix, while progesterone causes descent and hardening.
(20) Those of us who are nearly her age can remember the Queen’s ascension to the throne and the cheerful delight with which people talked of the “New Elizabethan age”.
Heaven
Definition:
(n.) The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense.
(n.) The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.
(n.) The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.
(n.) Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight.
(v. t.) To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify.
Example Sentences:
(1) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
(2) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
(3) Oh, heavens no, it would be too depressing, and it was East German territory anyway.
(4) The best charm shows water next to Heaven and then items representing qualities of Air, Earth and Water.
(5) I knew I could get 58 mid and I knew that, if the heavens were on my side, I could get a 58 low but to be the first person under 58 ...
(6) The facial appearance is similar to a Renaissance cherub with its gaze toward heaven.
(7) "All the talk of heaven and hell and redemption helped to start people talking," says Tharcisse.
(8) And if you get killed, then … you’ll enter heaven, God willing, and Allah will take care of those you’ve left behind.” Hijra is an Arabic word meaning “emigration”, evoking the prophet Muhammad’s historic escape from Mecca, where assassins were plotting to kill him, to Medina.
(9) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
(10) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
(11) One official wrote: "An article like this would be a heaven-sent opportunity to those who wish to get maximum publicity out of this incident to argue that the coroner was biased and for this reason the inquest was unsound."
(12) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(13) He said two pieces of evidence were crucial in persuading the jury that Samsung had intentionally copied elements of Apple's iPhone functionality: minutes of a meeting in South Korea with Google, which had warned senior Samsung executives to "pull back" from their tablet designs because they were too close to Apple's; and internal emails from Samsung executives which said that the difference between the iPhone and Samsung's smartphones was "heaven and earth", and that the two needed to be moved closer.
(14) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
(15) So while Labrinth, Heaven 17, The Proclaimers and Billy Bragg are playing on stage, kids will probably be more interested in the freesports park, Mr Tumble, the new Dance Space, junior football tournament, Insect Circus and kids' comedy club, to name but a few of the dozens of attractions.
(16) But while the public is convinced it doesn’t go far enough, the major parties have actually resisted most calls for greater scrutiny – independent oversight or, heaven forbid, a federal version of Icac .
(17) She will be looking down now from the heaven she undoubtedly believed in, and smiling.
(18) The village primary school and the heavens were going to open at the same time – and both were going to be equally welcome.
(19) While others decried his work, he wrote that his paintings “move and mingle among the pale stars, and rise up into the brightness of the illimitable heaven, whose soft, and blue eye gazes down into the deep waters of the sea for ever”.
(20) He added: “James Wharton is an ambitious politician – but heaven help him if he ever has to deal with a truly hostile press.