hegemony

In a sentence

Six example sentences with hegemony, each labelled with its topic.

• For thirty years one party held such hegemony that rival candidates rarely bothered to campaign outside the capital.

  Politics

• Athenian hegemony over the smaller islands rested on a fleet the allies themselves had paid to build.

  History

• Two firms enjoyed near total hegemony in mobile operating systems, and every app maker had to satisfy both.

  Technology

• The dollar's hegemony in world trade means a coffee grower in Kenya still prices beans in a currency she never touches.

  Economics

• The club's hegemony over the league lasted eight seasons, until a rival finally built a roster that could match it.

  Basketball

• Gramsci argued that hegemony works through schools and newspapers, so the ruled come to see the rulers' ideas as common sense.

  Philosophy

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