Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An advocate of hegemony.
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- noun A person who practices
hegemony - adjective Of or pertaining to such a person
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Examples
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The U.S. blundering around the world as a so-called hegemonist is about to end.
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If the USA had a reasonable (I.E. non-hegemonist) foreign policy it would have no legitimate quarrel with either state.
We’ve Always Been at War With… Line, Please « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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The real choice is between being regional hegemonist power -- running Hizballah in Lebanon, arming Hamas, covertly using its influence to control Iraq -- and becoming a normal country, part of the international fabric of nations, which is what the Iranian people overwhelmingly want.
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Brooks says that the Iranian regime faces the choice of acting as a revolutionary jihadist power or a regional hegemonist power, but there's no difference between those two "options" and that's not the real choice here.
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For some reason, religious and sexual hegemonist think that those who are not like them are against them and being against them amounts to anti.
Who Knew? delagar 2009
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On the contrary, a Kampuchea becoming a colony and a military base for two expansionist and hegemonist powers constitutes a menace as the years of the future will prove to the stability, peace, security and progress of nations and peoples of the entire region, and can well provoke an armed conflict with incalculable consequences between the Great Powers whose interests are in conflict in Asia.
Cambodia in Modern History: Beauty and Darkness Mekong Network 2008
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The "we" in this case begins with the United States, the world's leader (or hegemonist, as Chinese propaganda would put it).
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And now, bloodthirsty, delusional Jewish supremacist extremists have co-opted thisdangerous, pre-existing imperial power structure, are expanding it, and are trying to us it tohammer out a new, Israel expansionist-hegemonist friendlyMidEast.
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And now, bloodthirsty, delusional Jewish supremacist extremists have co-opted thisdangerous, pre-existing imperial power structure, are expanding it, and are trying to us it tohammer out a new, Israel expansionist-hegemonist friendlyMidEast.
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And now, bloodthirsty, delusional Jewish supremacist extremists have co-opted thisdangerous, pre-existing imperial power structure, are expanding it, and are trying to us it tohammer out a new, Israel expansionist-hegemonist friendlyMidEast.
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