Definitionn. the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others
Last update: September 27, 2015
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They did this by marginalizing the interests of the indigenous poor and dismantling the faltering hegemony of an Anglo-Irish ascendancy. [noun]
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Cultural hegemony was present in the 1940s, too. [noun]
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In these domestic contests the three cities that generally took the lead, and claimed to exercise a kind of hegemony or supremacy over the whole island, were Cnossus, Gortyna and Cydonia. [Please select]
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Such episodes must have been common at this period when each city was striving for hegemony. [Please select]
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Their ambitions went no further than a continental hegemony. [Please select]
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Upon the fall of Napoleon she seized the continental hegemony, and will fight to keep it. [Please select]
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Within three years after the battle of Carchemish Judæa threw off the yoke of Babylon, and a few years later Phœnicia rebelled under the hegemony of Tyre. [Please select]
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It meant further that Greece was to remain a house divided against itself; that democratic Athens must share with aristocratic Sparta the hegemony, or leadership, of the Hellenic cities. [Please select]
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