(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”.
Resurrection
Definition:
(n.) A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
(n.) Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.
(n.) State of being risen from the dead; future state.
(n.) The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Trimble, also a former leader of the UUP, said that resurrecting the IMC could act as a “confidence-building measure” for the unionist community.
(2) Conscious hip-hop may have once died an untimely death, but its resurrection is good news for everyone, especially if you've got shares in Eastpak.
(3) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
(4) Mitalipov's work resurrects cloning as a means of making tool for creating stem cells, and means that iPS cells can now be compared directly with embryonic stem cells to see if the differences matter.
(5) No call for the resurrection of the proud, shared traditions of Scots, Welsh and English people as they defied the powerful to build a better society; no convincing pledge that a new Britain would be forged, just and equal and fair unlike what New Labour failed to deliver.
(6) A lthough Steven Spielberg's new movie Lincoln barely shows the event, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by an actor – in a theatre, no less – so it seems especially appropriate that, a century and a half later, his resurrection should be conducted by a member of the same profession.
(7) I act with deeds and words, because the government seems determined to resurrect the old Victorian approach to disabled people.
(8) He must also decide whether to resurrect the post of White House climate adviser, which has been empty since early 2011 when Carol Browner stepped down .
(9) Few see it as a coincidence that the supreme court this week resurrected its efforts to have Swiss authorities prosecute Zardari on corruption charges.
(10) The future It is therefore surprising that this now discredited notion has been resurrected in the current debate over who can use which public restrooms.
(11) f) Excess, unbound fixative inhibited the histochemical reaction per se and had to be removed from the tissue but prolonged washing did not resurrect enzyme activity which was lost by fixation.
(12) If Ukip is ever to resurrect itself as a serious political force, it’s going to need a good long think about what fundamentally drives people to be Ukip.” Arnott said he would formally resign as Ukip’s general secretary and constitutional affairs spokesman after the party’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Monday.
(13) He then went on to resurrect his scenario of the ordinary worker who sees their neighbour "still asleep, living a life on benefits", to announce measures to cut almost £4bn a year from the welfare bill by uprating benefits for Britain's poorest by just 1% a year until 2015.
(14) A core group of European Union founding countries is to risk the fury of Visegrád member states as it forces the resurrection of a two-speed Europe back on to the Brussels agenda six decades after the treaty of Rome.
(15) It said that demonstration sparked an investigation then into whether the Brotherhood had resurrected a military wing.
(16) But now, with the surprise resurrection of Arrested Development and a well-adjusted lead role in new sitcom The Millers , he's in a pretty good place.
(17) Touré, nonetheless, was clearly relieved about a verdict that at least gives the former Arsenal player the chance to resurrect his career at a time when Mancini is already looking at bringing in another centre-half to partner Vincent Kompany.
(18) What was the 50p tax rate that Labour says it will resurrect?
(19) Now the physical intervention is about to start.” The chapel above the tomb where Christ is believed to have been buried and resurrected is in danger of collapse.
(20) One encounters these inner-city vicars who don't seem to mind what you believe – some will even say that the resurrection is but a metaphor – but don't be fooled.