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  • noun Plural form of hegemony.

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Examples

  • The significance of those remarks was the American recognition that the world was no longer the preserve of two major world powers, but rather that the future was to be shared economically, if not militarily, by hegemonies which had come into being in the shadow of the post-war Pax Americana, namely the hegemonies of the Soviet Union, the European Common Market, Japan, China and the United States of America itself.

    Facing Up to 1975 1974

  • While the book offers a useful primer for those naïve about how businesses function, it fails to arm readers with nearly enough to outsmart those crafty MBAs or challenge the hegemonies against which Mr. Kaufman rails.

    There's More to MBAs Than Legal Fraud Neil McIntosh 2011

  • But academic criticism often seems to have little use for the "literary" as a subject of inquiry except when it can be shown to be illusory, or elitist, or a prop supporting various evil hegemonies.

    Art and Culture 2010

  • Without those scholars more interested in "cultural production" and "hegemonies" than in works of fiction or poetry or drama, other scholars and critics who think studying such works as forms of literary art is a perfectly nice thing to do would be left alone to get on with the task.

    Satirical 2009

  • Have there been several successive world-systems, each with a changing structure and its own set of hegemonies?

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • Of course, other sports have their hegemonies too: Only five male tennis players have a real chance of winning the US Open.

    Champions League Losers Are Financial Winners 2010

  • Because on political reform, the Liberal Democrats are the real thing, the bona fide radicals, and political reform would spell the end of all the current hegemonies across public discourse.

    EVERYONE DEAD BY TEATIME Alix Mortimer 2010

  • Because on political reform, the Liberal Democrats are the real thing, the bona fide radicals, and political reform would spell the end of all the current hegemonies across public discourse.

    URGENT: Have your say on what Lib Dems should do next Alix Mortimer 2010

  • The article is an attempt to make non European sense of the complex hegemonies involved in the situation. '

    Endless Night 2009

  • Whether the US-Soviet mistrust justified their maintaining huge nuclear arsenals or was a pretext for securing their hegemonies (or both), the result was their de-coupling the obligations of the nuclear "haves" and the nuclear

    Nuclear Disarmament Deeds, Not Words, Could Help Obama Earn his Nobel 2009

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