Hegemonic in example sentence

The crass manner in which the Irish Catholics are shown as hegemonic, the Protestants as peaceful and downtrodden, is as poor a representation of history as early US westerns that depict the struggle between cowboys and American Indians.

More example sentences with word hegemonic

The world’s acclimation to a global hegemonic structure – in which world powers guarantee an international order – survived the Cold War.

Aimed at helping the US to maintain its strategic primacy in the Asia-Pacific region, the policy has been quietly welcomed by most regional actors, as it dovetails with their desire to check China’s hegemonic ambitions in the region.

The result was the empire’s dismantling, with the victorious powers, Britain and France, grabbing hegemonic control over its remnants.

Though the deal does slow Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, it does not restrain – or even address – the regime’s hegemonic ambitions in the region, for which it has already spent billions of dollars and suffered crippling sanctions.

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