Businesses might form conglomerates with some rivals in the hope of securing dominance for their own products and forcing other rivals out of the market.
China's island-building initiative signals an aggressive stance intended to secure dominance in the South China Sea, a strategic area that contains some of the world's busiest shipping lanes and is a potential source of oil deposits.
China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative and its efforts to secure dominance of the South China Sea are the foreign policy expressions for our time of China's vision of itself as at the center of greater Asian politics.
It is a measure of how fast the army has moved to secure dominance as it propels Pakistan into its own war on terror.General Sharif and his fellow officers argue that the school massacre has brought not just a reluctant political class but also the bulk of the country to recognise that Islamist militants pose a threat to Pakistan's very existence.
A 15-foot-deep crater and other scenes of devastation at the site of Friday's bombing revived memories of the years following Hariri's assassination, which set in motion a wave of killings that kept the country on edge until Hezbollah seized control of Beirut's streets in 2008 and went on to secure dominance in the government.
The Google war chest has all but secured dominance over smaller library efforts, like the author's own project to digitize the French National collection.
The Google war chest has all but secured dominance over smaller library efforts, like the author's own project to digitize the French national collection.
However, game theoretical analysis suggests that punishment is an adaptive strategy for individuals living in stable social groups, and that punishment can help establish or secure dominance in a social group (Clutton-Brock & Parker 1995).
The PNAC churned out other policy papers in the 1990s with the same general thrust: Now that the Soviet Union no longer existed, the U.S. must use its military power to secure dominance over the Earth, especially the oil producing regions thereby controlling the energy supplies of any future rival.
In all of this, and more dealing with the international concerns of fair trade, currency manipulation, and even the occasional impulsiveness of an ally to put our boots on some ground they would like defended even as inevitably the alliance for that defense will then be held up to ridicule as the means by which the U.S. secures western dominance.
The policies of the leading world powers will be more and more focused on strengthening global security, rather than securing the dominance of any particular nation.
