hegemonic

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With the political success of the Church, society as a whole became organized around a monolithic, hegemonic, and collectivist social institution defined by its opposition to Judaism.

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  • I'm not a fan of them because of the way books have a kind of hegemonic authority over our interpretive capacity. —  Parabasis
  • While O'Reilly wants you to believe this kind of hegemonic exorcising is not racism, but rather xenophobia regarding Mexico, and an underlying desire by liberal forces to change demographic dynamics in this country to gain power, it's hard to see it as anything more than —  News Hounds
  • Now the left is dominant, even hegemonic, in Latin America, and hopefully the few conservative dominos will fall as well. —  MRZine.org
  • The strategic aim remains the same: preserve a hegemonic role for a ruling class to command obedience to their whims. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • The first would be the snakes that caused these problems via their own sociopathic greed and hegemonic power and the others would be the armed bloggers who think everyone is out to get them be they trying to implement gun control (which that place badly needs in my view, no matter who implements it) or collect taxes or whatever. —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
 

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  1. from Greek ἡγεμονικός, from ἡγεμονία, leadership: see hegemony.
 

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