"My powers of domination know no bounds".
The Devi Purana mentions the Matrikas or Deva Shaktis (powers of the gods) as group of seven or more, who should be worshipped for Mukti (liberation) by all, but particularly kings for powers of domination.
They are enacting a divine violence, a violence that overturns the powers of domination and makes space for true freedom; their struggle foreshadows the struggle on Endor and the triumphant murder of everyone on board the second Death Star in Episode VI.
Susan Sontag wrote that "the moral core of Walser's art is the refusal of power; of domination".
"The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination of varying degrees of a complex hegemony," Dr. Said wrote in "Orientalism".
According to Said (1978: 5), the "relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of various degrees of a complex hegemony".
Said's (1978: 5) explication of the ambivalent relationship between the West and the Orient as 'a relationship of power, of domination, of various degrees of a complex hegemony' therefore seems more appropriate here.
Within CDA, ideologies often have a negative connotation, as exemplified by the following definition, from Wodak (1996: 18): "ideologies are particular ways of representing and constructing society which reproduce unequal relations of power, relations of domination and exploitation".
Schuman's guiding principles were moral, based on the equality of states (international democracy), not the power politics of domination.
In Newman's view, Heat and Dust has been "misread as raj nostalgia, when Jhabvala's theme is always the psychopathology of power, the process of domination in personal relationships or clashing empires".
Iraq, now shakily ruled by its Shia majority after ugly years of sectarian war, fears what may happen if Syria's Sunni majority, three-quarters of the population, seized power after decades of domination by Mr Assad's Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam numbering a tenth of Syria's people.
