In the second century a.d., it was captured again, and taken south, by the now unprepossessing Bayou Lafourche, which, by the year 1000, was losing its hegemony to the river's present course, through the region that would be known as Plaquemines.
In the 18 years of Conservative hegemony and the 13 years of Labour rule, careers came and went, seats were lost, chances missed, hopes dashed.
America is losing its hegemony in the Middle East, while the region itself has grown radically more fragmented and volatile.
America, meanwhile, has wrapped up its own financial markets in red tape and may be losing its hegemony.Huw van Steenis at Morgan Stanley in London estimates that securities markets outside America are expanding three times faster than those within, which they overtook in size in the first half of 2006.
Now film, too, is losing its narrative hegemony, and so the novel – the cultural Greece to its world-girdling Rome – is also in ineluctable decline.
Their political hegemony was not seriously threatened.
As with the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary, Murdoch's hegemony was never really in doubt.
But Wu's hegemony was short-lived; it collapsed after being attacked by Yue.
If necessary, a war with Austria to destroy its hegemony was not to be excluded.
The rise of global challengers to British hegemony was a catalyst for World War I.
