The bellicose pronouncements in Moscow suggest that Russia is becoming a superpower again, modernizing its nuclear arsenal and seeking supremacy over the United States.
During this time, a group of fishman pirates appear, seeking supremacy against humans, and hold a coup d'état to decide the fate of the island.
The authors argue that notwithstanding Russia's disinclination to be a global challenger, to seek nuclear supremacy, to amass forces to threaten Europe and willingness to "reset" relations with the Obama administration, Russia has used nuclear threats to coerce some of its neighbors and may do so again.
And yet the hydra of white supremacy persistently sought measures to subvert citizenship.
It sought to reverse the "supremacy" the court's precedents gave women's health over the interests of the fetus, he said, and it made the "location of the fetus in the woman's body," rather than viability, the determining factor in whether a state could ban abortion.
While China and the United States jousted for Olympic supremacy, Canada sought its first swimming medal since the 2000 Sydney Games, and its first track and field medal since the 1996 Atlanta Games, when Donovan Bailey won the 100 meters and anchored the victorious 4x100-meter relay team.
They said the United States "is apparently attempting to seek absolute military supremacy and even greater global hegemony".
Another novel's antagonist was a sinister sect leader who, with his shrill and domineering wife, seeks to establish supremacy over the jianghu.
"I am ashamed that women are so simple, to offer war where they should kneel for peace, or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, when they are bound to serve, love and obey," Kate says.
Klan members sought the restoration of white supremacy through intimidation and violence aimed at the newly enfranchised black freedmen.
