Noun
Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBecause of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution. Jerry Coyne
The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. Zbigniew Brzezinski
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind? Czesław Miłosz
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. Clifford Geertz
Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. Paul Bowles