(n.) Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Empowerment may be found through a moral economy grounded in use value appropriate to advanced industrial society that is consonant with Gramsci's new hegemony.
(2) If there’s an issue with London’s hegemony, the answer isn’t to punish London butto invest confidently in arts and arts education throughout the country.
(3) Recently, however, the professional hegemony that physicians have enjoyed is increasingly being questioned in the light of profound changes that are taking place in the organization of health care in the United States.
(4) In Asia, China has deployed a potent mix of psychological and legal warfare to strengthen its claims to hegemony over the South China Sea.
(5) But he knew that in order to overturn the Labour hegemony in Bradford West, he would need to reach out to sections of the community Labour had long ignored: young people and women, particularly the women of the Asian community, which in the 2001 census made up 38% of the constituency.
(6) There had been protests in Tahrir that day against the Muslim Brotherhood, the president, Mohamed Morsi, and the Islamist hegemony of Egypt's future constitution.
(7) Their complex 1985 book, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, remains a key point of reference for Podemos’s leadership.
(8) The professionalists can now be described as an occupational hegemony.
(9) Underlying diverse forms of hegemony are economic arrangements and an array of cultural norms.
(10) Yet a leftish middle-class hegemony is far from the whole story; the area has always had a strong working-class presence that has uneasily coexisted alongside its louder and newsier monied neighbours.
(11) Many are beginning to question whether anything has really changed at all; others maintain that things have simply got worse, that the old hegemony has been reinforced rather than loosened, widening the disparity between the wealthy and the rest.
(12) Amintore Fanfani, who has died aged 91, was one of the architects of Christian Democratic hegemony in Italy.
(13) To fracture this coalition would deny success to either remaining rump, and guarantee Conservative hegemony.
(14) This was not to be mistaken, however for the much-trumpeted "end of American hegemony" on which foreign secretary David Miliband briefs, about which Obama was asked.
(15) This ideology envisions Russia's re-emergence as a conservative world power in direct opposition to the geopolitical hegemony and liberal values of the west.
(16) It is likely that this attack, with its potential for political backlash, would require the approval of high-level authorities within the Chinese government.” The Great Cannon’s first firing proved “exceptionally costly” to its target, GreatFire, and “may also reflect a desire to counter what the Chinese government perceives as US hegemony in cyberspace”, the researchers write.
(17) After 28 years the Eredivisie hegemony of Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord has been broken.
(18) It would also destroy the hegemony of half a dozen high-status journals.
(19) There are those who hint at forces behind Boko Haram trying to bring about, through terror, a return to the hegemony of the north.
(20) "In conclusion, the west's hegemony and threats will be discredited" in the Middle East.
Iconoclast
Definition:
(n.) A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.
(n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Banks, who made his money selling insurance and sees himself, like Nigel Farage, as an ex-public school iconoclast of the “liberal establishment”, is no longer just some rightwing outlier.
(2) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
(3) Described by Econsultancy as “erudite and iconoclastic”, he was recognised as tech entrepreneur of the year at the 2016 UK Business Awards.
(4) Though he strongly disapproved of much of what later took shape as "New Labour", which he saw, among other things, as historically cowardly, he was without question the single most influential intellectual forerunner of Labour's increasingly iconoclastic 1990s revisionism.
(5) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
(6) This autumn’s project should deliver sparks as Khan creates and performs a duet with flamenco iconoclast Galván, exploring their fascination with rhythm, gesture, pattern and myth.
(7) I am something of a parvenu, but we should welcome the iconoclastic and the unconventional.
(8) Acknowledging the contribution of sociology and social sciences to psychiatry, it is suggested that the heroic period of social psychiatry and the iconoclastic approach of sociology of mental health are over.
(9) On the surface, the grumpy pacifist iconoclast had little in common with the war hero author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - apart from a weakness for inordinately long prefaces.
(10) In some ways no one represents this better than the iconoclastic Varoufakis, whose investiture should go down as a textbook case of what happens when radicals come into town.
(11) While Brand’s iconoclastic politics, urging people not to vote and to abandon conventional party politics, emerge naturally from his subversive comedy, the spirit of Izzard’s surreal improvisations are harder to find in his pursuit of a conventional political career.
(12) The recent case of The Jewel of Medina, a work by Sherry Jones which is neither bold nor iconoclastic, exemplifies the problem.
(13) In his 20s he was an iconoclastic aesthete, who learned Chinese with the great Swedish sinologist, Bernard Karlgren, in Stockholm, not out of political commitment to Mao's recent revolution, but out of love for a venerable culture of grace and simplicity which, he thought, represented the blissful antithesis of the consumerist west.
(14) This iconoclastic critique from the right did not change US policy but gained the keepers of Rand's flame respect and credibility, said Ghate, a Canadian of German and Indian parentage with a PhD in philosophy.
(15) Outraged Gehry's iconoclastic designs include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Maggie's Centre, a cancer daycare centre, in Dundee.
(16) The impresario and iconoclast Malcolm McLaren , who has died aged 64 from the cancer mesothelioma, was one of the pivotal, yet most divisive influences on the styles and sounds of late 20th-century popular culture.
(17) His backers, it should be noted, include such bold iconoclasts as Tessa Jowell, Lord Falconer and Alastair Campbell.
(18) If Christopher was louche, hedonistic and iconoclastic, Hitchens would be fastidious, puritanical and Christian.
(19) But Brolin said that “he came on [set] as the kind of mercurial iconoclast he is.
(20) These iconoclasts would happily leave behind the burden of ancient stones and get on with the church’s real mission.