[ noun ] the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others <noun.group> the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederationto say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system
Hegemony \He*gem`o*ny\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? guide, leader, fr. ? to go before.] Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates. --Lieber.
Nostalgia for the simpler days of American hegemony, real or imagined, will simply impede the work ahead, as will all attempts to reimpose it.
A devout traditional Anglican who considers liberation theology a threat to the integrity of the Gospel, Mr. Buthelezi understands the benefits of federalism and devolution and mistrusts central state hegemony.
'The last thing Saudi royalty wants on its doorstep is a successful little democracy in Yemen,' one western diplomat said. A Gulf diplomat suggests that the Saudis may also be concerned about a potential Yemeni threat to their hegemony in the region.
He accused President Corazon Aquino of reneging on self-rule for the 5 million Moslems and said the archipelago's central and southern regions were under the "unlawful and immoral hegemony" of Luzon, the main Philippine island.
As in many Third World societies in which democratic pluralism has not yet taken root, politics in black South Africa is about establishing local hegemony or control of political territory.
Until the early '80s, it recorded exclusively with Karajan for Deutsche Grammophon and EMI; later, it broke away from his hegemony and worked under several conductors with other recording companies.
The most tangible of the links between our alleged economic decline and our loss of hegemony is found in our inability to carry out Mr. Reagan's defense program.
He prefers low-risk hegemony, and is supporting guerrilla armies that are stationed below the river.
"We wonder how other parties themselves will react to the American attempt to impose their hegemony and tyranny over the whole world," it said.
But he says there is always a chance the Iraqi leader will "get crazy again" and resume bullying his neighbors and trying to extend his hegemony in the gulf.
"Neither side would seek hegemony of any form" in Asia or elsewhere, the joint statement declared.
The hegemony of the two universities would not matter if Britain was a great success story in the 20th century.
But its first chapter covers the consolidation of Soviet hegemony, based upon the victories of the Red Army and the introduction of Communist Party leadership in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
"It is a modest step in the right direction to lift the Syrian hegemony off Lebanon," said a statement issued by Aoun's three-man military Cabinet after a late-night session.
The employment bill, currently before parliament, will mark the final nail in the coffin of trade union hegemony. After the upheavals since Black Wednesday this is not enough.
Postwar, CEOs made use of strong dollars and American political hegemony to internationalize.
Their challenges to that hegemony are probably a good thing.