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  • This went on for years, right up to the war between the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance and the Chinese Hegemony.†   (source)
  • They are incapable either of self-rule or of accepting the hegemony of their superiors.†   (source)
  • Yet, indeed, even leaving aside these most powerful resemblances, which are very real and which find their origin in similar historical fountains (there should be added: an entrenched religious hegemony, authoritarian and puritanical in spirit), one discovers more superficial yet sparkling cultural correspondences: the passion for horseflesh and military titles, domination over women (along with a sulky-sly lechery), a tradition of storytelling, addiction to the blessings of firewater.†   (source)
  • Northerners whose political power depended on maintaining the Federal hegemony over the former Confederate states resisted any effort to heal sectional strife.†   (source)
  • The Warsaw Pact was on its way to hegemony before the First Invasion.   (source)
  • No. You're going into the Hegemony, aren't you?   (source)
    hegemony = in this book, Hegemony is sometimes used as a proper noun to refer to a government with power over all nations of the earth to coordinate the defense of humankind
  • I reserve the right to communicate with the Hegemony and the Strategoi at any time.   (source)
  • So trust me now, Anderson, and don't bring the whole damn Hegemony down on review.   (source)
  • Right now there's a vast international fleet and army in existence, with American hegemony.   (source)
    hegemony = dominance
  • Because as long as people are afraid of the buggers, the I.F. can stay in power, and as long as the I.F. is in power, certain countries can keep their hegemony.   (source)
  • In Dink's home in the Netherlands, with three generations under Russian hegemony, perhaps it was all controlled, but Ender knew that lies could not last long in America.   (source)
  • It's fine to work with these hegemonist Russians with the buggers out there, but after we win, I can't see leaving half the civilized world as virtual helots, can you, dear?   (source)
    hegemonist = attempting to assert dominance
  • Siri's Rebellion was a romantic legend, a minor footnote in the history of the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony can't yet build portable fatline transmitters.†   (source)
  • Brawne, it would not be in the Hegemony's interest to announce it.†   (source)
  • Dad had once described Meina Gladstone as the only political genius in the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • A minimum of seven standard months separated Bressia from any Hegemony rescue or response.†   (source)
  • The essence of the plan was that the Ousters had to be provoked into attacking the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • And the Ousters obviously had many questions for these Hegemony citizens.†   (source)
  • He said: "The Hegemony Firstdown Team was wary of this area.†   (source)
  • I mean that the Sequoia Sempervirens will not be allowed to leave Hegemony space.†   (source)
  • As long as the Hegemony exists, he can do it in one lump.†   (source)
  • Welcome to the newest world in the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Notes for a sketch of life in the Hegemony: My home has thirty-eight rooms on thirty-six worlds.†   (source)
  • He is wearing the blue and gold robes of the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Computer access was supposed to be as private and anonymous as datasphere entry in the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • I would have thought your Hegemony was far beyond a petroleum economy.†   (source)
  • It's as if the Hegemony had a policy to keep Hyperion at arm's length.†   (source)
  • He is wearing the blue and gold robe of the Hegemony Council.†   (source)
  • A Hegemony warship is...escorting us...this very moment.†   (source)
  • Less than two weeks here and then the voyage back to your Hegemony.†   (source)
  • What would happen if the Separatists attacked the Hegemony tourists or the new residents?†   (source)
  • The Consul c6uld not avoid an involuntary intake of breath as the Hegemony ship filled the viewer.†   (source)
  • Those are Hegemony missiles being exploded by the Ouster ramscouts" countermeasures."†   (source)
  • We had almost never talked about the time when Maul-Covenant would join the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • The TechnoCore had given the Hegemony the farcaster and continued to maintain it.†   (source)
  • I hope you go back to your stinking, crowded Hegemony hives and rot for all I care.†   (source)
  • A new era of Hegemony glory would begin.†   (source)
  • What about the AI authorities...if there are such things...or the Hegemony cybercops?†   (source)
  • The Ambassador's experts say you'll do the Hegemony'more good down there than up here.†   (source)
  • The fate of the Hegemony may depend upon it.†   (source)
  • Even those were sold by Hegemony trade specialists.†   (source)
  • By the Hegira, ninety-eight percent of the Hegemony's population had no reason to read anything.†   (source)
  • How many-peo-ple from the Hegemony will use the farcaster to come here...for recreation purposes?†   (source)
  • Whatever secrets the Time Tombs might hold would go to the Hegemony's enemy.†   (source)
  • He continued to defend the Hegemony as they laid siege to our world.†   (source)
  • Is it true, Merin, that people in the Hegemony have their homes on a dozen worlds?†   (source)
  • Elements of the TechnoCore had opposed Hyperion's entry into the Hegemony for centuries.†   (source)
  • Although there had been no more major battles, the Ousters remained the Hegemony's prime bogeymen.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony provided me with a private spacecraft.†   (source)
  • Gladstone explained to me how the Hegemony planned to capitalize on that obsession.†   (source)
  • It is not difficult, I have learned, to remain a pre-Copernican pagan in the postscientific Hegemony.†   (source)
  • The New Prophet then began to explain exactly how the Hegemony hostages would be executed, but at that moment Kassad's deadline ran out.†   (source)
  • Uncle Gresham recently gave a speech before the Council urging that we fight rather than agree to be swallowed into your Hegemony.†   (source)
  • The Consul turned away from the pit, looking at his former aide but now seeing, for the first time, the Governor-General of a besieged Hegemony world.†   (source)
  • A battered passenger skimmer with the gold geodesic of the Hegemony painted on one flare skirt had landed ten meters away.†   (source)
  • A FORCE: space task force was immediately dispatched from Parvati to evacuate the Hegemony citizens on Hyperion before the Time Tombs open.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony did not wait eleven local years to return-the FORCE torchships were in orbit before five years had elapsed.†   (source)
  • Even if they brought us back to Hegemony-space, the round trip would have cost us eleven years" worth of friends and family.†   (source)
  • In addition to being the capital of the Hegemony and home of the Senate, TC2 is the business nexus for Webtrade.†   (source)
  • "So it is with great" pleasure that I close this circuit and welcome you, the colony of Maui-Covenant, into the community of the Hegemony of Man."†   (source)
  • Sidewalk cafes buzz with conversation on civil rights...we were technically out of the Hegemony-did we have any rights?†   (source)
  • Even when separated by the inevitable leap years of time-debt, no colonial or independent world could hope to match the power of the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Hyperion still needs the Hegemony, and Gladstone still has the vote of confidence of the All Thing, if not the Senate.†   (source)
  • The tunnels on each world are thirty meters square and carved by some technology still not available to the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • The first leg of the voyage was the ten-day transit to Parvati on the Hegemony torchship HS Intrepid.†   (source)
  • The best anti-aging drugs the Hegemony has to offer only manage to extend an active lifetime a bit over the hundred standard-year mark.†   (source)
  • And the only ones with enough political pull to shield us from the Hegemony while finding transit for us to Hyperion.†   (source)
  • The last fatline message from Bressia to the Hegemony was cut off in mid-transmission an hour after Ouster troops entered the city.†   (source)
  • I've known what I must do since I was a child, returning alone to Siri's tomb and swearing vengeance on the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • I mean, M. Lamia, that a murder was committed but that the police— local and Hegemony-have neither knowledge of it nor jurisdiction over it.†   (source)
  • I saw immediately that the trail had led to one of the few free motile isles which the Templars had saved from Hegemony domestication.†   (source)
  • Like all of the dolphins and many of the isles themselves, although the Hegemony tried to keep as many of those intact as possible.†   (source)
  • Weren't you and Dad working on a bill that would have brought Hyperion into the Hegemony Protectorate?†   (source)
  • They said they had projects which were not compatible with total immersion in Hegemony-read human-affairs.†   (source)
  • The resolve and rapid-deployment capabilities of FORCE were properly tested where no real harm was done to Hegemony interests.†   (source)
  • She had been elected four times to the All Thing and the Hegemony Council turned to her for advice and guidance.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony warship has granted permission for you to descend to Keats's space-port," said the Captain.†   (source)
  • We were on island 241, as the Hegemony traders had so romantically named the desolate volcanic blemish which they had chosen for our R and R site.†   (source)
  • There he was resuscitated and put on full life support while the military brass and Hegemony politicians decided what to do with him.†   (source)
  • "You said that there was a Hegemony warship escorting us," the Consul said to Het Masteen as they finished their roast beef and boiled sky squid.†   (source)
  • He could see the speck and long blue tail of at least two scoutships fleeing from the Hegemony pursuers.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony had chosen us to help crew one of its precious quantum-leap spinships, so how could we be less than gods?†   (source)
  • The Church has accepted the Hegemony's ruling that...these creatures...ergs...are not sentient beings...and thus not candidates for salvation.†   (source)
  • Both had lived their entire lives on Barnard's World, one of the oldest but least exciting members of the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Agreements between the TechnoCore and the Hegemony allow only a handful of cybrids to be in existence.†   (source)
  • The early Outback skirmishes such as Bent's World and GHC 2990 were considered aberrations, of little interest to the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Next to the priest sat a man whose image had been familiar to most citizens of the Hegemony some years before.†   (source)
  • The Worldweb, the All Thing, the Hegemony of Man-allof them had been built on the most vicious type of patricide.†   (source)
  • Belonging to neither the Hegemony nor Protectorate, Hebron taxed travelers heavily for farcaster privilege and allowed no tourists outside New Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony Ambassador had presented her with a scroll and a new ship, a small submersible powered by the first fusion cells to be allowed on Maul-Covenant.†   (source)
  • Someday, when the last components had been brought in-system by the Los Angeles and the farcaster finished, Hegemony officials would make island 241 into a center for trade and tourism.†   (source)
  • Do you remember our dear, departed Voice of the Bush Masteen telling our Consul friend that h/s secret weapon was that nice Hegemony singleship sitting back at Keats Spaceport?†   (source)
  • It is no. accident that in six centuries of interstellar expansion the Hegemony has encountered no species considered intelligent on the Drake-Turing-Chen Index.†   (source)
  • "It would seem that our reasons for returning to Hyperion are so compelling that even the Shrike Church and the Hegemony probability intelligences agree that we deserve to return," he said.†   (source)
  • Not during the parades and parties of graduation, nor as the class marched in a final Olympian review before the Hegemony CEO, saluting from his red-lit levitation deck.†   (source)
  • A major development was the Hegemony Protectorate's decision to send along on that expedition a fatline transmitter for installation at the Hegemony consulate in Keats.†   (source)
  • They want me to say my farewells so they can get on with their rites and rituals, open the farcaster doors, and join the waiting Worldweb of the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • The same pride that later allowed her to face down the angry mob of Separatists on the steps of the Hegemony consulate in South Tern and send them to their homes in shame.†   (source)
  • Because we are part of that one tenth of one tenth of one percent of the Hegemony's citizens who travel between the stars rather than along the Web, we represent odd epochs of our own recent past.†   (source)
  • Then the Consul realized, belatedly, that the treeship would be ideal for the upcoming evacuation, its expenses ultimately to be reimbursed by the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Nor were the revolutionary mullahs who had led the invasion so opposed to the "Great Satan of Hegemony Science" that they refused to tie into the global data net with their personal cornlogs.†   (source)
  • No. The Core has contact with every colony world, with such interstellar barbarians as the Ousters, and with other sources the Hegemony could not imagine.†   (source)
  • Core intelligences not only create the infrastructure for Hegemony society but are necessary for everything from FORCE deployment to the failsafes on stockpiled nuclear and plasma arsenals.†   (source)
  • Someone once estimated that the All Thing deals with about a hundred active pieces of Hegemony legislation per day, and during my months spent screwed into the sensorium I missed none of them.†   (source)
  • The Core drops tidbits of revelations to the Hegemony when it serves the Core's purposes-sometimes to aid the Volatiles, sometimes the Stables, but always to please the Ultimates.†   (source)
  • I was the dutiful son, extolling the virtues of life in the Web, studying the glorious history of the Hegemony of Man, andpreparing for my own career in the diplomatic corps.†   (source)
  • In the first three days of the revolution the armies of the New Prophet had occupied most of the cities on two continents and had taken more than twenty-seven thousand Hegemony hostages.†   (source)
  • With only a three-week real-transit time and a time-debt of less than a year, the Hegemony can always get forces here from the Web faster than the General can spin up from Fomalhaut.†   (source)
  • He wondered if the world below was Hyperion or Garden; he had been to neither but knew that Garden was more widely settled, closer to becoming a Hegemony colony.†   (source)
  • Leadership of the colony passed to the Home Rule Council, which petitioned the Hegemony for membership and immediately established a Self-defense Force.†   (source)
  • Asquith was not-the Hegemony had offered a FORCE:space fleet as a shield-but the royal ruler of the Kingdom of Monaco-in-Exile seemed more melted than ever when he called me in.†   (source)
  • On Garden I was adviser to the arcology engineers who drained Grand Fen, ending the short reign of the marsh centaurs who had ruled-and threatened Hegemony progress-there.†   (source)
  • She viewed the Hegemony and the Worldweb the way a child would view the fantasy world of a pleasant but rather silly myth; there was an indifference there that almost drove me mad at times.†   (source)
  • For me, the first few months of life as a celebrity in the Hegemony were far more disorienting than my earlier transition from spoiled son of Old Earth to enslaved stroke victim on Heaven's Gate.†   (source)
  • The New Prophet agreed with Kassad's statement that Allah would horribly punish heretics but announced that it was the Hegemony infidels who would be so punished.†   (source)
  • The death of Old Earth had been deliberate, planned by elements of the TechnoCore and their human counterparts in the fledgling government of the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Hegemony purposes were served.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony spinship was incongruously streamlined with its four sets of boom arms retracted in battle readiness, its sixty-meter command probe sharp as a Clovis point, and its Hawking drive and fusion blisters set far back along the launch shaft like feathers on an arrow.†   (source)
  • By Hegemony Standard, it is October 12, 589 p. c. By Hyperion reckoning, or so I am told by the wizened little clerk in the old hotel where I am staying, it is the twentyzthird day of Lycius (the last of their seven forty-day months), either 426 A.D.C. (after dropship crash!)†   (source)
  • We've been in touch with our senators...even talked to the Science Council directors;...but no one can explain to me why the Hegemony hasn't spent more time and money investigating the phenomena on Hyperion.†   (source)
  • I worked for the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • The Ouster Hawking wake had been noticed by Hegemony monitoring stations but was misinterpreted as merely another swarm migration which would pass no closer than half a light-year to the Bressian system.†   (source)
  • The FORCE: space captain of the only Hegemony ship within two leap years of the colony world had been paying a courtesy call when the New Prophet chose to lead thirty million New Order Shi'ites against two continents of Suni shopkeepers and ninety thousand resident Hegemony infidels.†   (source)
  • Even after the Ousters acquired the Hawking drive, it remained official Hegemony policy to ignore them as long as their swarms stayed in the darkness between the stars and limited their in-system plunderings to scooping small amounts of hydrogen from gas giants and water ice from uninhabited moons.†   (source)
  • "So you're saying," said Devon Whiteshire, the show's host and the third-best-known face in the Web datasphere, "that the Shrike Church's refusal to allow you to return to the Time Tombs...and the Hegemony's tardiness in processing a visa...these things will doom your child to this...extinction?"†   (source)
  • For more than a century it had been illegal to own androids in the Hegemony, and none had been biofactured for almost that long, but they were still used for manual labor in remote parts of backwater, noncolony worlds-worlds like Hyperion.†   (source)
  • During the undeclared war with the Free Miners in the Lambert Ring Territories, it was Lieutenant Kassad who led the surviving infantry troops and Marine guards in cutting through the bottom of the old asteroid bore shaft on Peregrine to evacuate the Hegemony consulate staff and citizens.†   (source)
  • Sol set aside the book he was working on-an analysis of Kierkegaard's theories of ethics as compromise morality as applied to the legal machinery of the Hegemony-and concentrated on collecting arcane data on time, on Hyperion, and on the story of Abraham.†   (source)
  • I remember when I was fifteen, watching with my family from the upper deck of our ancestral isle as a dozen other islands burned in the distance, the Hegemony skimmers lighting the sea with their depth charges.†   (source)
  • He and I had our three days of planetary R and R coming up but we knew from Shipmaster Singh's briefings and the moans of our Shipmates that the only ground time we had to look forward to would be spent on a seven-by-four-kilometer island administered by the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Full visuals had not yet formed; the air remained empty except for the pulse of transmission codes which told the Consul that this fatline squirt had originated on the Hegemony administrative world of Tau Ceti Center.†   (source)
  • The OCS:HTN was part of the Worldweb All Thing, the real-time network which governed Hegemony politics, fed information to tens of billions of data-hungry citizens, and had evolved a form of autonomy and consciousness all its own.†   (source)
  • The HS Denieve had seeded enough spysats so that by 1729 hours Qom-Riyadh Central Time, the datasphere had been tapped to the point that the Hegemony ship had identified sixteen thousand eight hundred and thirty revolutionary muilahs by their access codes.†   (source)
  • Shuttling the workers around their chosen singularity point some one hundred and sixty-three thousand kilometers out from Maul-Covenant was a lot less glamorous for us than the four-month leap from Hegemony-space.†   (source)
  • As tends to be the case in a universe apparently ruled by irony, Fedmahn Kassad passed unscathed through ninety-seven days of the worst fighting the Hegemony had ever seen, only to be wounded two days after the last of the Ousters had retreated to their fleeing swarmships.†   (source)
  • The Ousters had been the single external threat to the Hegemony for the four centuries since the forebears of the barbarian hordes had left Sol System in their crude fleet of leaking O'Neill cities, tumbling asteroids, and experimental comet farm clusters.†   (source)
  • The fact that essential technologies were essentially frozen in place for three of those centuries worked in the Hegemony's favor as its monopoly on the use of farcasters allowed it to apply the modest resources of FORCE at the right place in the required amount of time.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Father Hoyt hesitantly, as if trying to retrieve an earlier strand of thought, "if the Hegemony convoy leaves and the Ousters take Hyperion, perhaps the occupation will be bloodless and they'll let us go about our business."†   (source)
  • But the attack on Bressia had mobilized the Hegemony toward true interstellar war as had nothing else in three centuries, and Kassad's voice was either drowned out or dismissed as the guilty conscience of the Butcher of South Bressia.†   (source)
  • Their attack on the Hegemony hospital ship carrying Colonel Kassad, among others, had been a miscalculation; their ship captain had panicked when the hospital ship had been mistakenly identified as a military spinship.†   (source)
  • A week before word came that the Hegemony would allow the Yggdrasill to sail with pilgrims for the war zone near Hyperion, I used a Temple farcaster to "cast to Renaissance Vector where I spent an hour alone in the archives there.†   (source)
  • Legend had it that the niece had scorned the gift but over the decades the toys had become almost absurdly popular-more with rich adults than with childrenuntil they were outlawed on most Hegemony worlds.†   (source)
  • I, for example, am sixty-eight standard years old, but because of the time-debts my travels could have incurred, I might have spread these threescore and eight years across well more than a century of Hegemony history.†   (source)
  • The Consul thought of the Shrike, free to wander everywhere on Hyperion, of the millions of indigenies and thousands of Hegemony citizens helpless before a creature which defied physical laws and which communicated only through death, and he shivered despite the warmth of the cabin.†   (source)
  • Despite the decline of the Catholic Church into what amounted to a half-forgotten cult tolerated because of its quaintness and isolation from the mainstream of Hegemony life, Jesuit logic had not lost its bite.†   (source)
  • BB worked in Hegemony Flow Control Records and Statistics and spent most of his life reclining on a free-fall couch with half a dozen microleads running from his skull while he communed with other bureaucrats in datumplane.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony Consul sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamps below.†   (source)
  • The Als had peacefully seceded from human control more than three centuries ago-before my time-and while they continued to serve the Hegemony as allies by advising the All Thing, monitoring the dataspheres, occasionally using their predictive abilities to help us avoid major mistakes or natural disasters, the TechnoCore generally went about its own indecipherable and distinctly nonhuman business in privacy.†   (source)
  • If the fleet did construct a farcaster in time and the Hegemony committed the total resources of FORCE to defending the single, distant, colonial world of Hyperion, the Worldweb ran the terrible risk of suffering an Ouster attack elsewhere on the perimeter, or-in a worst-case scenario-having the barbarians actually seizing the farcaster and penetrating the Web itself.†   (source)
  • The Templar gazed thoughtfully at the weirwood rafters while the Consul dressed in semiformal evening wear of loose black trousers, polished ship boots, a white silk blouse which ballooned at waist and elbows, topaz collar cinch, black demi-coat complete with slashes of Hegemony crimson on the epaulets, and a soft gold tricorne.†   (source)
  • Bressia was one of those smug, independent worlds, pleased with both its convenient access to the Web and its eight-month separation from it, growing rich from the export of diamonds, burr root, and its unequaled coffee, coyly refusing to become a colony world but still dependent upon the Hegemony Protectorate and Common Market to meet its soaring economic goals.†   (source)
  • if eating chalma roots or breathing the pure air of the Pinion Plateau had a dramatic effect on retarding aging, it would be a sure bet that everyone on Hyperion would be living here munching chalma, that this planet would have had a farcaster centuries ago, and that every citizen of the Hegemony who has a universal card would be planning to spend vacations and retirement here.†   (source)
  • The Hegemony police?†   (source)
  • So while I slept the Hegemony became a formal entity, the Worldweb was spun to something close to its final shape, the All Thing took its democratic place among the list of humanity's benevolent despots, the TechnoCore seceded from human service and then offered its help as an ally rather than a slave, and the Ousters retreated to darkness and the role of Nemesis...but all these things had been creeping toward critical mass even before I was frozen into my ice coffin between the pork bellies and sherbet, and such obvious extensions of old trends took little effort to understand.†   (source)
  • Even the pitched battle for Lee Three had been treated as a Colonial Service problem and when the FORCE task force arrived six local years after the attack, five years after the Ousters departed, any atrocities were conveniently forgotten in favor of the view that no barbarian raid would repeat itself when the Hegemony chose to flex its muscle.†   (source)
  • Second Lieutenant Cadet Kassad became Lieutenant Kassad, spent three standard weeks free in the Web with a FORCE-issued universal card which allow him to farcast as far and as frequently as he wished, and then he was shipped out to the Hegemony Colonial Service training school on Lusus to prepare for active duty beyond the Web.†   (source)
  • So the first Sol and Sarai heard of their daughter's accident was when the Hegemony consulate on Parvati fatlined the college that Rachel had been injured, that she was stable but unconscious, and that she was being transferred from Parvati to the Web world of Renaissance Vector via medical torchship.†   (source)
  • The elite Ouster equivalent of Hegemony Space Marines, the commandos would not only have been trained for free-fall combat but had been born and bred to zero-g. Their long limbs, prehensile toes, and prosthetic tails would be added advantages for this environment, although Kassad doubted that they needed any more advantages than they already had.†   (source)
  • A century ago the island would have been driven by the bands of dolphins brought here originally during the Hegira, but the Hegemony pacification program during the Siri Rebellion had killed off most of the aquatic mammals and now the islands wandered listlessly, carrying their cargo of Web tourists and resort owners.†   (source)
  • We were reviewing events after the war between the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance and the Chinese Hegemony, 1987 and following.†   (source)
  • Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.†   (source)
  • I know more about this than I want to, because I asked a foolish question in Military History and got stuck with an assignment which forced me to dig up stuff ranging from De Bello Gallico to Tsing's classic Collapse of The Golden Hegemony.†   (source)
  • Concerned primarily with maintaining the hegemony of New England, they feared westward expansion would diminish the political and economic influence of the commercial cities of the Northeast, lower the value of Eastern lands inwhich they were financially interested, and provide the Jeffersonians with a permanent majority in Congress.†   (source)
  • In the German spirit the matriarchal link with nature rules in the form of the hegemony of music to an extent unknown in any other people.†   (source)
  • THE HEGEMONY WRESTED from the enemy, the freedom won from the malice of the monster, the life energy released from the toils of the tyrant Holdfast—is symbolized as a woman.†   (source)
  • the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and islands, its persisten†   (source)
  • There was barely enough space in the floor of my tiny room for someone as tall as Wesley to stretch out on his stomach, but he managed, and I sat across from him, the board between us as we spelled out words like quixotic and hegemony.   (source)
    hegemony = the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over all others
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