(n.) Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.
(n.) Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.
(n.) That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.
(n.) A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) One exception to this rule is France, which once counted the Central African Republic amongst its dominions.
(2) The Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa have assented to the new legislation, and the Free State Dail meets to-day.
(3) Thus, individual preganglionic axons do not require exclusive dominion over a particular part of a postsynaptic cell in order to maintain their connection with the cell.
(4) The Court upheld Pennsylvania's law defining medical emergency, as construed by the Court of Appeals; allowed a 24-hour waiting period for women who must 1st hear information about pregnancy and abortion to insure thoughtful informed consent; allowed a parental consent provision, with a judicial bypass; and allowed a recordkeeping and reporting requirement; but disallowed a spousal notification requirement, noting that "[a] State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."
(5) A news helicopter hovered overhead, along with a swarm of television news trucks in what is ordinarily a tranquil meadow in a large, wooded section within sight of a roller coaster at the Kings Dominion amusement park along Interstate 95.
(6) Fortunes were made by the likes of Rockefeller, Mellon and Carnegie, living standards rose and, in 1890, the US Bureau of Census announced that there was no longer a frontier – the US, its laws and its dominion stretched "from sea to shining sea".
(7) The idea of taxing anybody on this "remittance basis" was introduced when income tax was first imposed - in 1799 - in order to allow those who owned land in his majesty's dominions to escape tax on their colonial wealth unless they brought it back to England.
(8) Some contentious issues may be clarified if this area of human dominion, namely control over genetic expression among offspring, is acknowledged to be the legitimate persisting concern of those who have produced sperm and ova after storage commences.
(9) It also insists that exercising the dominion granted to humankind in Genesis means tilling “ the whole Earth ”, transforming it “from wilderness to garden and ultimately to garden city”.
(10) When I met Boris in his office, the nucleus of his dominion, I glanced at his library.
(11) Ukip's total victory has transformed the electoral landscape for ever, from a world of three-party politics to a single-party dominion set to last 500,000 years.
(12) Mastery is a human response to difficult or stressful circumstances in which competency, control, and dominion have been gained over the experience of stress.
(13) Thomas Jefferson believed that the constitution should expire after 19 years, so that the dead would not have dominion over the living.
(14) But with the results out of the way, and the first chapter of what promises to be a long-running accounting inquiry complete, new boss Dave Lewis feels it is now safe to leave the country, at least for a couple of days, to inspect his dominion.
(15) This is in response to an increasingly aggressive China, which claims dominion over vast areas of the Pacific that the US considers international waters, and has alarmed smaller Asian neighbours by reigniting old territorial disputes, including confrontations over the South China Sea.
(16) If men turned away from "softness, play, emotional connection, all the so-called feminine attributes", society would reward the traditional man, if not with material wealth and political prominence, at least with dominion over wife and children.
(17) Another is the Canzuk concept, the dream of a free trade and free movement zone between the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – three nations from what used to be called the “white dominions”.
(18) Nine of 25 runners in the 1989 Old Dominion 100-mile Endurance Race took 800 mg of cimetidine 1 hr before the start and at 50 miles.
(19) They hit hard, as if their aim was to establish an "illimitable dominion over all".
(20) As Rick Santorum explained at an energy summit in Colorado : "We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth … for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit."
Supremacy
Definition:
(n.) The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(2) In India, though, the industry – built on sex, race and class supremacy – is not only legal but estimated to be worth more than $1bn (£690m) a year.
(3) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
(4) But the demise of white supremacy does not mean the end of white people, just of their supremacy; given the widespread conflation of the two by discomfited white people, perhaps we do need a month to teach us all the difference.
(5) Combine that with the child sexual abuse scandals that began to surface in the 1980s – and the Vatican's reaction to those scandals – says Woodhead, and you begin to see a slow dissolution of the church's moral supremacy.
(6) In the circumstances, they showed commendable resolve not to allow all the changes and disruption to break their supremacy.
(7) Top floor: a roomful of sombre youths vying for individual supremacy using some form of networked arcade strategy game that uses collectible cards.
(8) Over the past decade, several new treatment alternatives have evolved that challenge the supremacy of traditional surgical cholecystectomy.
(9) "The intelligence system of the Islamic Republic of Iran has achieved a remarkable triumph and intelligence supremacy over the Zionist regime's [Israeli's] espionage system and we succeeded in identifying enemy's elements," Moslehi was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency as saying.
(10) Those who tell you the left has to somehow “reconnect” with people whose minds are full of white supremacy and misogyny must finish the sentence.
(11) His aim, the court heard, was “the creation of an international Aryan group who would establish white supremacy in white countries”.
(12) Students cited far less visible grievances, for example a lack of “serious study into the implications of racism, white supremacy, and imperialism” in the law curriculum, and the lack of a diversity & inclusion office among their complaints.
(13) Perversely, having Barack Obama in the White House seemingly helps perpetuate white supremacy’s continued existence, both by highlighting that individual people of color can attain great heights, and by providing a focal point for anecdotal, individual acts of racial oppression.
(14) The margin of supremacy over the rest this term means they could play in flip-flops for half of their remaining Ligue 1 games and still win the league comfortably .
(15) It is timely.” Tarantino has also spoken about the issue of white supremacy being important in the film, a phrase he has recently used when discussing the use of violence against unarmed black victims of police brutality.
(16) The general supremacy of classical theory of balanced nutrition entailed the tendency to remove ballast substances from food products.
(17) Would it be fair to say that he believes in the supremacy of paint?
(18) Such was the supremacy that Dimitar Berbatov, Robbie Keane and Aaron Lennon could all be substituted well before the close.
(19) Only the flowering of the operative medicine compelled the internal medicine towards the end of the 19th century to give the supremacy over to surgery, because only this part of medicine was able to remove the causes of the disease.
(20) Both main parties do not think to question the supremacy of supposed growth and the idea that national "prosperity" must be king.