The phrase "achieved hegemony" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing dominance or leadership in political, social, or economic spheres.
Example: "After years of strategic alliances and military campaigns, the nation finally achieved hegemony over its rivals."
Alternatives: "established dominance" or "gained supremacy."
It's also true that pigs were still raised on farms, most vegetables were seasonal and hyperprocessed junk hadn't yet achieved hegemony.
As John retreated and his coalition collapsed, there could be no doubt that Capetian France had achieved hegemony in Christian Europe.
Originally containing the entire Old Testament in about 380 folios, of which 294 are extant, the Aleppo Codex remains the only known true representative of Aaron ben Asher's text and the most important witness to that particular Masoretic tradition that achieved hegemony throughout Jewry.
(Fantasy and science fiction have also risen mightily, if not to the point of achieving hegemony, but they lie outside Anderson's purview).
Given the worldwide and worsening shortages of food, fresh water, fuel, and other resources essential to the maintenance of viable nationhood, one may wonder if any country will ever be able to achieve hegemony.
"The U.S. has gone to great lengths to be the dominant power on the earth, first by achieving hegemony in its own region and then by preventing the rise of a peer competitor in other regions like Asia and Europe".
Another military historian, Gary Sheffield, says that "most modern scholarship" agrees that Britain's war aims in 1914 were the same as in 1939: "to prevent an authoritarian, militarist, expansionist enemy achieving hegemony in Europe … If the allies had lost", he says, "it would have meant the end of liberal democracy on mainland Europe".
The broader profile this implies is outlined in Figure 2 below, which uses the size of triangles and L's to indicate the sense in which one or another triangle achieves hegemony in the social sciences, or becomes more fashionable in the humanities.
Some centres achieved local hegemony, but never to the extent of extinguishing permanently the pretensions of rival centres.
Now hip-hop has achieved cultural hegemony, but Patterson doesn't seem to have noticed that the genre has become markedly less pugnacious in recent years, thanks to non-thuggish stars like Drake, Nicki Minaj, Macklemore, Kendrick Lamar, and Iggy Azalea.
This paper uncovers how the pressures of financialization were passed from top management to employees and achieved performative hegemony in a subsidiary of a knowledge intensive, high technology, multinational corporation.
