hegemony
The United States is viewed as having a global hegemonic role in the world.
This hegemonic view pays too much attention to military might.
The EU was founded on a rejection of the hegemonic power politics that had plagued the continent for much of the previous four centuries.

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hegemonic
Moreover, in a liberal democracy with a well-developed private sector, would-be hegemonic efforts to extend the party's influence through society can have unexpected results.
The tyranny of gender is that no one is safe from rigid, hegemonic notions of appearance and behaviour.
Critical theorists have concentrated on the radical potential of constitutional patriotism as a subversive force intent on 'de-centring' and destabilizing homogeneous, hegemonic national identities.
It also analyses how the periphery both challenged the hegemonic dreams of planned communities and became a safety valve to release tensions from the camps.
Since postmodern texts are meant to be obstructive to any dominant discourse, they do not even favour a (potentially hegemonic) anti-colonialist position.
In so far as its succeeds, or manages to become institutionalized, it can be said to have become hegemonic.
In the 1980s it became evident that the neo-liberal economic orthodoxy had become the hegemonic project.
In the hegemonic ideology's stereotypes of dominated groups lies ample room for manoeuvring, manipulation and the eventual formation of rival or occasionally even counter-hegemonic discourses.
However, in the context of the fraternity they actually feel "liberated" for a while from this hegemonic ideal.
Moreover, some groups clearly operated from well outside this ' hegemonic ' language however broadly it is defined.
Language is the vessel that steers hegemonic ideas into ascendancy and perpetuates a particular vision of the world.
In terms of structure and form, however, they had much in common with the hegemonic small-state realistic narrative.
The persistence of this image of hegemonic rural and urban elites has only reinforced the historic marginalization of groups like the criminal tribes.
The hegemonic struggle is a relatively open-ended process wherein, major socio-economic tendencies notwithstanding, there is a margin for the political.
Multiethnic literature illustrates the difficulties of a facile distinction between colonial and anti-colonial, between a hegemonic and an anti-hegemonic language.
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