Sentence examples for british hegemony from inspiring English sources

The rise of global challengers to British hegemony was a catalyst for World War I.

last khedive (viceroy) of Egypt, from 1892 to 1914, when British hegemony was established.

The annexation challenged British hegemony in the region, raised fears of a German-Transvaal alliance, and accelerated the scramble for Southern Africa.

What Japan should be pondering are India's lessons from the period of being a British colony and from the struggle against British hegemony.

India had become steadily more difficult for Britain to rule and without India, British hegemony in the Middle East, deemed a core national interest until the disaster of Suez in 1956, was increasingly unsustainable.

Anglo-Burmese Wars, (1824 26, 1852, 1885), three conflicts that collectively forced Burma (now Myanmar) into a vulnerable position from which it had to concede British hegemony in the region of the Bay of Bengal.

This has now generated something of a Eurosceptic hegemony in British public debate.

Some modern historians see interwar Europe as reverting to its dark past, rejecting democratic liberalism for autocracy and fascism; others treat this period as an interval between British and American world hegemony.

It was intriguing, too, that the club seemed designed to be a challenge to, or at least a twist upon, the network of all-male spaces that have so long supported British (and American) power hegemonies.

"In other words, they aim at putting Iraq's economic, political and military potential in the hands of American and British enemies -- a complete colonialist hegemony".

So he sketchily manipulates already clichéd blocks of history (epochs of exploration, colonization, industrialization, automation), recycled components of social organization (temple, fort, palace; weapon, fetish, value) and inherited shifts of hegemony (Greco-Roman, Spanish, British, American).