(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.
Jingoism
Definition:
(n.) The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) Ministers have promised there will be no "jingoism", but Cameron says he wants to remember those who "gave their lives for our freedom" and ensure that "the lessons learned live with us for ever".
(3) Unthinking support for the US was the mirror image of virulent Euroscepticism: initial jingoism morphed into silence as the Afghan campaign went wrong.
(4) Labor supported Australia’s contribution to the mission in Iraq, he said, not as “a matter of jingoism or nationalism” but based on “a calculation of conscience and national interest”.
(5) What I did say, in an article in the Guardian on 13 July 2013 , was that the broad and inclusive plans of Maria Miller, the culture secretary, for the commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war have been "in strong contrast to the narrow, tub-thumping jingoism of Gove" in his redrafting of the national schools history curriculum to force schools to teach an uncritically celebratory narrative of English history.
(6) Both men remembered events slightly to their own advantage, but the bigger cause for the discrepancy is jingoism.
(7) There is more Britishness in self-deprecation than in jingoism, more national identity in embarrassment than in brash self-assertion.
(8) Growing up in New York with artist parents – a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo – I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism.
(9) Quite the opposite, in fact, as the former Smiths singer has sent an open letter to members of his fanclub attacking the "blustering jingoism" of the Olympic Games .
(10) This as we enter 2017, the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Holyoake , the man who coined the word “jingoism”.
(11) This jingoism from Mr Howard, that he wants to put on the battle-dress, is grotesque and ridiculous.
(12) The full text of the letter to members of his True to You fanclub reads: "I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event.
(13) According to Gove, I have demeaned the memory of the British soldiers who fought in the first world war and "attacked the very idea of honouring their sacrifice as an exercise in 'narrow tub-thumping jingoism'".
(14) Indeed, it’s deputy chair, Chris Nineham, told the Today programme that his organisation would not be organising or joining any protests outside the Russian embassy because that would merely fuel the “hysteria and the jingoism” currently being whipped up against Moscow.
(15) Morrissey was as adrift in his comments about "blustering jingoism" as the MP Burley has been about multiculturalism in the opening ceremony.
(16) Jingoism's Guy Mowbray, on the BBC, is arguing that the laughable decision not to award Lampard's goal was more wrong than the one which allowed Hurst's goal all those years ago.
(17) Yet already the "secretary of state who should know better", Michael Gove, has seized the moment for tub-thumping jingoism against his political foes.
(18) Theresa May would go to war to protect Gibraltar, Michael Howard says Read more “I’m sorry, this is 2017-18, it’s not 1851 [...] The idea of Spain going to war against Britain over Gibraltar is frankly absurd, and reeks of 19th-century jingoism,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
(19) If nationalism is supposed to come first, whatever the facts suggest, then you are in the jingoism business, or the propaganda business, not the news business.
(20) Everything was underpinned not by a raucous jingoism but by a determined pride in what our country now is and to show that we can be the best, a patriotism that allows us to be open to the cream of the world but also to use it for our own purposes.