Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ruling; predominant: principal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Leading; controlling; ruling; predominant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
hegemony
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Examples
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It's as if the ISG glued blinders to their collective head, ignoring the fact that both Iran and Syria are engaging in hegemonic actions to control Iraq; that either of these countries will only support the parts of the ISG that assist in the achievement of their goals, and that they will tell us anything while they do whatever the hell they want, because they do not fear us.
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While the patriarchal family was the ideal in hegemonic discourse, there was a significant gap between this rhetoric and the reality of power relations within plebeian families in the area.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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They are part of what we'd call hegemonic society ...
Jason Linkins: MySpace vs. Facebook: You Call This A Class Division? 2008
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Washington has been openly hostile to any resurgence of military power in European, no matter how unlikely that might be, on the basis of what political scientists call hegemonic stability theory.
Cato @ Liberty Christopher Preble 2010
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Greenberg said the Conservatives failed to emerge as a "hegemonic" party.
General election survey shows all parties failed to impress voters 2010
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A post-assimilative society is one in which the liberal democracts, Canadians, are borne into a kind of hegemonic thirst for preservation, where none existed before the advent of progressivism.
Progressivism Challenges Liberal Democracy « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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A post-assimilative society is one in which the liberal democracts, Canadians, are borne into a kind of hegemonic thirst for preservation, where none existed before the advent of progressivism.
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What particularly strikes me about Taha Abdul-Basser's remark is not his endorsement of the traditional Islamic death sentence for people who convert out of Islam, but his combining that endorsement with criticism of "hegemonic" human rights discourse!
Never Yet Melted 2009
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From my experience, that kind of hegemonic treatment is routine in the agency world, and the way business is done in Hollywood.
Looks like Dennis has weighed in. Ann Althouse 2009
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From my experience, that kind of hegemonic treatment is routine in the agency world, and the way business is done in Hollywood.
Looks like Dennis has weighed in. Ann Althouse 2009
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