War remains the continuation of politics by other means, and although weapons are the means to dominate the battlefield, such domination alone does not guarantee eventual victory, which depends on destroying the enemy's will to fight.
And again, none of them holds out the prospect of domination in the way that the operating system dominates the personal computer.Take the infrastructure of the Internet.
There was nonetheless a historical irony in watching Ukrainians tearing down Lenin's statues as a sign of their will to break with Soviet domination and assert their national sovereignty.
Yet it was to be Alistair Brownlee's day and in the end an English one-two that completed the nation's day of domination in the triathlon.
Issues of how to build a common life under conditions of pluralism, how to engage people in political participation and self-government, how to decentralise political and economic power, how to resist the domination of the rich and the powerful, how to renew love and work so that life can be meaningful and fulfilling.
In certain quarters, there is a tendency to believe that the inevitable dynamic of the peace process is not just the inclusion of the extremes but their domination of the polity.
In those parts of the world historically resentful of western domination, resistance to equal marriage – and to gay and lesbian rights – has, if anything, grown in reaction.
With Rupert Murdoch in seventh place, the US domination of the top of the list is broken only by the BBC's director general Tony Hall, who is ranked the fourth most powerful person in the media.
But her popularity may also blunt the Tory attack linking a Labour government with Scottish domination southof the border".
He told himself that he was robbed but also wondered if his sheer domination of his fellow man had irked the Almighty: "I knew that God didn't pick on any small animals, that lightning only struck the biggest animals, that those are the only ones that vex God.
But most Northern Ireland Catholics have never used it, feeling it represents British and Protestant domination.
