What's the difference between hegemony and power?

Hegemony


Definition:

  • (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.

Power


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Poor, the fish.
  • (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
  • (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
  • (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
  • (n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
  • (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
  • (n.) A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
  • (n.) A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
  • (n.) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
  • (n.) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
  • (n.) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
  • (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
  • (n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
  • (n.) Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.
  • (n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.
  • (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
  • (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (4) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
  • (5) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (6) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
  • (7) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (8) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
  • (9) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (10) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (11) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (12) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
  • (13) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (14) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
  • (15) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
  • (16) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (17) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (18) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
  • (20) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).

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