One of these states, Mataram, the last great Javanese kingdom, achieved dominance over eastern and central Java in the 1580s.
However modest in themselves, the cuts raised the prospect of an end to the role of those forces in sustaining the Soviet Union's dominance over eastern Europe.
One wonders why the Obama administration fails to realize that the only thing being "reset" by the current policy is Russia's dominance over eastern Europe and a decline in US influence and prestige.
This would risk undermining the West's Ukraine-related sanctions, and provide Mr. Putin with tacit recognition of Russia's annexation of Crimea and Moscow's dominance of eastern Ukraine.
And those calculations assume that it is as easy to borrow to finance a nuclear plant, with all its uncertainties and regulatory risk, as it is to finance a gas plant, which is probably unrealistic.Step on the gasIn eastern Europe, where Russian dominance of gas markets is a political issue and electricity markets are still quite regulated, governments may consider such a differential acceptable.
The clustering of significant effects of variations in water supply in the climatically drier and warmer eastern region suggests a dominance of the climatic regime compared to factors such as the hydrologic properties of soil, or grassland management.
Without large scale disturbances to alter forest structure and open the canopy, historically oak-dominated forests of the central and Appalachian hardwood regions of eastern North America are shifting to dominance by shade-tolerant, 'mesophytic' species.
It strives to extend its membership, to elect more women, to reduce the dominance of the eastern seaboard.
The intrusion of global market forces has helped re-consolidate the dominance of the eastern coast in China's urban development.
The Soviet Union would continue to have dominance over its eastern European allies and East Berlin, while the United States and its allies would claim western Europe, West Germany, and West Berlin within their sphere of influence.
In the interim, Venice commandeered the Byzantines' best sea bases, built a maritime empire around them and fought, intrigued and bullied its way to dominance of the eastern Mediterranean.
