In effect, Mr. Hollande's commitment to negotiating a new pact for the battered euro zone seemed to challenge Ms. Merkel's dominance of the debate, projecting France as the vaunted champion of a wider movement of people no longer prepared to go along with threats to cherished living standards.
There is another, more sinister, side to the debate on dominance: race.
The so-called "quad" of top cabinet ministers, Cameron, Nick Clegg, the deputy PM, George Osborne, the chancellor, and his deputy, Douglas Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury, has devised a strategy to counter Salmond's dominance of the political debate in Scotland.
People were once debating their dominance — whether the Heat's 27-game winning streak was more or less impressive than the Blackhawks' season-opening 24-game point streak — and now they are openly wondering if this superteam business is not all it is cracked up to be.
In the first of two parts, the group debated the dominance of "Modern Family," made a case for some comedy newcomers and offered Television Academy voters some advice on breaking bad habits.
In social hierarchies, dominant individuals experience reproductive and health benefits, but the costs of social dominance remain a topic of debate.
The dominance of Americans has prompted debate.
FOR a company that is already the subject of intense scrutiny by antitrust authorities on both sides of the Atlantic, Google seems surprisingly willing to provoke further debate about its dominance of the online-search business.
With King seemingly intent on continuing its opposition to Stoic's trademark filing, Zacconi's letter is unlikely to dampen down the criticism of his company – which plays into a wider, often-heated industry debate about the dominance in the mobile games world of free-to-play games like Candy Crush Saga.
