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Definition of hegemony:

  • (noun) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others

Sentence Examples:

Nor was it only in the arts of war that the hegemony of the Bourbon kingdom stood unquestioned.

It is in vain Great Britain, Germany, or Russia disputes with her the hegemony of European civilization.

The dream of a universal hegemony is shattered.

A similar anarchy and civil war, takes control of the cities towards a foreign power, to a dominating center that rapidly extends its hegemony on a great number of cities and on a great territorial extension.

Or, or he reasoned, he would outwit his opponent and maintain his old hegemony.

It was the city which made rural population dependent on capital, and which produced revolutionary forces to assume political hegemony over the village, there to complete revolutionary changes in civic and political relations.

Meanwhile, the marvelous material growth of the Argentine Republic began to make Chileans doubt if their country could retain that military and naval hegemony which she had possessed since her great victories over Peru and Bolivia.

The Power which may, five years hence, have undisputed hegemony of the ocean, holds a difficult position there to-day.

At last, influencing as much as influenced by the event, the murder of its great Archbishop in the later twelfth century, lent it, for the last three hundred years of its hegemony, a position unique in Europe.

We must own some sympathy with the Turks, the old conquering race, who once fully vindicated their hegemony.

The real matter at issue is the wisdom of the imperial government in utilizing the material which the spread of culture and prosperity provided, and substituting for the old hegemony of Italy a governing class drawn from all parts of the Empire.

The world, in fact, in coalition against the insolent race which aimed at hegemony without in any way justifying it.

Is it unreasonable to suppose that the other great segment of humanity, the Spanish South Americans, will cultivate the immaterial side, will establish a great artistic, intellectual, and spiritual hegemony in the world?