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And all this because he has decided to contest US hegemony by using the methods often deployed by the west.

Paradoxically, the treaty also raised a challenge to Russian hegemony by abolishing the Ottomans' commercial monopoly and opening the principalities to the international market.

The "Gujral doctrine" has sought to improve relations with small neighbours suspicious of Indian hegemony by offering unilateral concessions with mutual benefits.

In the 19th century, Professor Mearsheimer argues, the United States struggled for regional hegemony by conquering much of North America, justifying it by the notion of Manifest Destiny.

A "Merkollande" partnership might be cool at the outset, with the Frenchman seeking to balance out German hegemony by widening the decision-making circle, advisers to Mr. Hollande say.

Since the onset of global politics 200 years ago, four long wars (including the Cold War) were fought over the domination of Europe, each of which could have resulted in global hegemony by a sole superpower.

The almost exclusively Sunni opposition believes it is battling a Shia Islamic hegemony led by Iran and abetted by regimes in Damascus and Baghdad.

French opinion becomes inflamed: "L'affaire Cray, said Clovis Mornay, a leading French intellectual, on a panel on French television's Canal Plus on l'antiamericanisme, was a perfect example of how the innate American desire for hegemony, expressed by private citizens as much as in actions by the state, was attempting to interfere with the centuries-old traditions of France.

Above all he showed his ability as a world-class tester and one capable of challenging the hegemony shared by Wiggins, Tony Martin and Fabian Cancellara.

This reduction of the "liberation dividend" can be seen from the tapering off of the ANC's electoral hegemony and by increased rioting in poor townships.

Mr. Rudnick says the plot has only increased in resonance because men have grown even more anxious about gender issues and begrudge having their hegemony shredded by women, gays and minorities.