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Its political engagements were for its own economic and military hegemony instead of fairness and the greater good.
That hegemony, however, had to be established by persistent compulsion, and there were three stages in its completion.
There is, however, this difference, that, while Germany aimed at hegemony of the whole world, the Japanese only aim at hegemony in Eastern Asia.
Such episodes must have been common at this period when each city was striving for hegemony.
It is true that eventually Spain exhausted herself by trying to do more than even her young powers could accomplish, but for a while she retained the hegemony of Christendom.
It still rests on our tendency to give chief importance to what can be seen and touched; and it is an effect of the hegemony of three of our senses, the visual, the tactile, and the muscular.
The reason is that all our evolution, for causes which would take too long to detail, has established the hegemony of certain of our senses over the others.
It is, no doubt, uncertain at what date these explorations were effected, and some of them may belong to the later hegemony of Tyre, ab.
It may be said that the Great Powers exercise a kind of political hegemony within the Family of Nations.
Yet this hegemony is not based on law, it is simply a political fact, and it is certainly not a consequence of an organization of the Family of Nations.
At the beginning, it will establish a military hegemony without intervening in the internal political organization of the cities, or in their particular governments.
Indeed, standardization and hegemony are the obstacles to the free blossoming of individuals, societies and the information economy, the main source of tomorrow's jobs.
It was also important as establishing the hegemony of France on the southern shores of the Mediterranean.
When we speak of a labor government we mean that the hegemony belongs to the working class.
This is possible only where there is a hegemony of industry over agriculture, and a hegemony of the city over the village.
The old idea had been to put them under the hegemony, or leadership, of one of the great cities.
Still we are forced to admit that servitude and corruption are the commanding features of the age in which Italy for the third time in her history won and held the hegemony of the world.
They also reluctantly rejected the hegemony of the Shogunate, though as a matter of fact this had but a nominal existence.
Down to the close of the nineteenth century, however, they generally accepted white hegemony as a disagreeable but inevitable fact.
Out of the prehistoric shadows the white races pressed to the front and proved in a myriad ways their fitness for the hegemony of mankind.
How does it come, then, that this particular method achieves such an effective hegemony over the other modes of reflection?
Their hegemony was not only apparent at Court and in the Ministries, but even began to be established all over the country.
The very fact that the hegemony had become an empire was enough to make the new system highly offensive to the allies.
Its commerce and wealth were so great, and its prestige as capital of the county so influential, that it exercised a veritable hegemony over the other towns.
She counted on winning the hegemony of Europe before she could be checked by a combination ready to meet her on more than level terms.
Olivares wanted to lead England on to the slope of Catholicism, and to ensure Spain's hegemony over Europe.
They thus expressed the aspirations of peoples, groups, or individuals toward hegemony, or of man toward goodness and truth.
The States were able to endure without much difficulty the hegemony of a victorious, powerful, prosperous Prussia, a hegemony by which they profited.
I cannot doubt that, before the war, a hegemony of this kind would have abundantly satisfied the Germans.
You desire hegemony without war; they desire it at all costs, even if they have to fight for it.
The Spartans could hear them, and receive such an impulse into manhood that they engaged with us in a struggle for the hegemony.
It was the great market center of the East, and as such of the Mediterranean world, since the commercial and intellectual hegemony was always east of the Aegean Sea.
Of him I shall speak later: at present the clan of friends met, so to speak, under the informal hegemony of Monty James.
The vast ambitions of Bolivar won the day, and Ecuador became a province of Greater Colombia, under the hegemony of Venezuela or New Granada.
The battles of the Revolution gave the hegemony to ambitious generals; against these a central government, above the quarrels of parties, would have defended liberal institutions.
The wars of the peoples were therefore civil conflicts; the quarrels of generals ambitious of hegemony.
Better so for him and his pride, for he cannot keep the hegemony against the will of the Ionians, whose fleet is so much larger than ours, and it is to his gain if his successor lose it, not he.