What is "hegemonic"

Usage examples of "hegemonic".

And the bloggers were growing daily less patient with the Times hegemonic grip on American journalism.

It consolidated a particular and hegemonic image of modern sovereignty, the image of the victory of the bourgeoisie, which it then both historicized and universalized.

And Chase Mago, having worked for Wrath-of-God and escaped the Hegemonic net around Kesse before that, had probably done an emergency retuning more than once.

Thanks to the accelerated study on Solitudo Hermae, the Hegemonic script no longer looked peculiar to her, but the titles were old-fashioned enough to make her hesitate, mentally shifting from one alphabet to the more familiar coine characters, before she was certain she understood them: The Art of Courtly Behavior, Recollections of a Long Life, Regulations of the Royal House, The Register of the Thousand, and the even larger Register of the Ten Thousand.

Jerusha still could not really believe that the First Secretary of the Hegemonic Assembly had ever agreed to attempt such a thing, even if Sparks Dawntreader was his son--a son he had never seen, and could hardly be sure was even his.

Perhaps if conservatives exercised hegemonic control over the media, they would be venom-spewing haters, too.

Crime and punishment on Tiamat--in effect, in Carbuncle--as on other Hegemonic worlds, had been split into the jurisdictions of two courts, one presided over by a local official chosen by the Winters and acting under local laws, and one by an off world Chief Justice, who passed judgment on off worlders under the laws of the Hegemony.

Regardless of other circumstances, when someone says things like disenchanting the hegemonic discourse of compulsory heterosexism with a straight face, and on a date at that, you should know it can only end in tears.

Home to tens of billions during the days of the Web, surrounded by an actual ring of orbital cities and habitats, served by space elevators, farcasters, the River Tethys, the Grand Concourse, the fatline, and more -- center to the Hegemonic datumplane megasphere and home of Government House, site of Meina Gladstone's death by infuriated mobs after the destruction of the Web farcasters by FORCE ships on her command, TC2 was hard hit by the Fall.

Home to tens of billions during the days of the Web, surrounded by an actual ring of orbital cities and habitats, served by space elevators, farcasters, the River Tethys, the Grand Concourse, the fatline, and more-center to the Hegemonic datumplane megasphere and home of Government House, site of Meina Gladstone's death by infuriated mobs after the destruction of the Web far-casters by FORCE ships on her command, TC2 was hard hit by the Fall.