The factional chiefs, alarmed by the Christian advance, called in the help of the Almoravids, the powerful Amazigh confederation then exercising hegemony over northwestern Africa.
After the collapse of the Huns, however, no single confederation arose to dominate the rest of the Western Steppe until a people known as Avars set up headquarters in Hungary in 550 and proceeded to raid far and wide in all directions, exercising hegemony over various Slavic and Germanic tribes until submitting to Charlemagne in 805.
Indeed, military power, if used to exercise hegemony, is often counter-productive.
Meanwhile, back in the west, the successors of Charlemagne set up a new version of the Roman Empire, known as the Holy Roman Empire, which exercised hegemony over Germany from the late 10th to the early 19th century.
I can understand that perhaps her opinion state is just the tool of oppression, which enables the "privileged" classes to exercise hegemony (a Marxist kind of view) over ordinary people.
Secondly, I don't think the issue of...the international order of Asia is exclusively or primarily a military problem....I'm a great friend of China, but I've always said that it is not in the American interest or in the world interest for one country to exercise hegemony over all of Asia.
By winning 65 seats in the 165-member, single-chamber National Assembly, in an election on September 26th, the Venezuela Unity coalition dealt a blow to the hopes of Hugo Chávez, the leftist president, of exercising indefinite hegemony.
Neoconservative theorists saw America exercising a benevolent hegemony over the world, using its enormous power wisely and decisively to fix problems such as terrorism, proliferation, rogue states, and human-rights abuses.
Jack Shafer, the editor at large for Slate, spoke for a lot of folks when he let rip recently about the dreary hegemony exercised over the presidential campaign by the same 10 pundits mouthing canned political "insights" as they wagged their big bobbleheads.
Operation "Crime 3" showed that the 'Ndrangheta exercises absolute "hegemony over cocaine trafficking in Europe based on the alliance with Colombian traffickers in Europe and Los Zetas in the US".
Some think it is moving towards formal hegemony, as exercised by Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party for seven decades until its defeat in 2000.
