In 1767, after more than four centuries of Ottoman rule in Bulgaria, which had placed Bulgarian Christians under the direct administration of the patriarch of Constantinople and a Greek clergy, a number of Bulgars decided to free themselves of Greek domination by seeking union with Rome.
In contrast, Russia regarded it as a means of retaining some degree of regional integration (under Moscow's political domination) and sought to establish it as a supranational body that would succeed the U.S.S.R.
The conservative New English Review stated the fundamental question as "whether Islam is a religion or a political doctrine seeking domination with a thin veneer of religious practices".
They're seeking domination.
As the word demagogue suggests, the leader is bringing the common folk to a destination -- a place of feeling justified in seeking domination, revenge, and superiority.
This Orientalism and the concept that the East is weak, feminine, and seeking domination need to be eliminated from western mindset.
With dreadlocked Bob as the "Marlboro Man of marijuana", Marley Natural is seeking market domination.
Mr. Hussein, they contend, is the more dangerous of the two men, seeking regional domination rather than just survival.
It fits that he would write a romantic comedy about another race seeking world domination from the alien's point of view.
And General Michael Flynn, recently retired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has been insisting that the terrorist enemy is "committed to the destruction of freedom and the American way of life" while seeking "world domination, achieved through violence and bloodshed".
In republics, an economy that would be menaced by internal disunity and a ruling class united at least in its pursuit of commercial advantage helped assure the preservation of public order and the repulsion of any individual or family seeking political domination.
