Sentence examples for a hegemonic force from inspiring English sources

And if it was no longer an alternative, but a hegemonic force of its own, then what was the point of it?

As Brad McCrea seemed to authoritatively conclude, even poetic license is subject to the law (and when, at least in Western art history, is art ever independent of rich patronage or the institutional support of a hegemonic force?).

While many career Foreign Service officers are sincere and dedicated people, the nature of their role forces them to see the world from inside the prism of a hegemonic power.

"If America wants to become a hegemonic power, it is rather difficult for other nations to prevent that," he wrote.

The importance of a hegemonic power in stabilizing the global economy was initially indicated by Kindleberger in the 1970s.

But rather than a mere retread, this goofy, sometimes corny bagatelle provides an improbably fresh portrayal of Hollywood as hegemonic force: an imperium that projects its power through paper-moon artifice and paste-pot aspirations rather than swords, sandals or "the big H-arino," as one character calls a recent hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

His is not simply a tale of individual sacrifice but an instance of how artists attempt to use cultural [End Page 95] value as a means of mediating the hegemonic force of market values in the age of global capitalism.

It would seem that Iran today is closer to Czechoslovakia in 1968, when the first attempt at peaceful revolution was violently crushed, than it is to the situation twenty years later, when the young students beaten and arrested a generation before had become the culturally hegemonic force in the country.

The various chapters in this volume all work to deconstruct the dominant and almost hegemonic force of policy-centered work in the region by arguing that Central Asians are not inextricably tied to a static "tradition" which survived intact after decades of Soviet control, nor are they are inherently susceptible to "fundamentalist" ideologies.

The far right is becoming more openly extreme, in part because there is no hegemonic force on the right – no Nick Griffin figure capable of telling the more radical elements to tone down the Holocaust denial for the sake of being allowed on Question Time.

It also tells us something important about the weakness of the contemporary Democratic Party as a counter-hegemonic force in the on-going battle for the mind of the American electorate.