For Israel, it had become a symbol of the Palestinian power over the region.

In 1979, the rebels conquered the capital and put an end to the south's hegemony.

By June Egypt was in the hands of nationalists opposed to European domination of the country.

The effectiveness of Franco German resistance to American hegemony was qualified, though, by the reactions of other European states.

Asia Minor was an essential part of the Greek world and an area of enduring Greek cultural dominance.

Theoderic the Great sought alliances with, or hegemony over, the other Germanic kingdoms in the west.

By excluding the Slavs who accounted for half the empire s population the Compromise was seen as a vehicle for German Magyar domination.

The 1454 Peace of Lodi ended their struggle for hegemony in Italy, attaining a balance of power (see Italian Renaissance).

The history of dependence on oil in oil rich countries under domination is an experience that no independent country would be willing to repeat.

Violations of human rights, the diversion of humanitarian aide and plans for hegemony over the Sahara as a whole that was the reality being orchestrated by Algeria.

However, their activities should be linked with United Nations supervision, so that large and powerful nations do not transform such regional structures into instruments of domination.

The financial crisis is really a relatively small historic phenomenon, which has just accelerated this huge shift, which ends half a millennium of Western ascendancy.

I met a very difficult environment in the pre elections, an environment which was increasingly polarized, an environment which was shaped by the selfish politics of dominance and exclusion.

But China s approach to statecraft, in which dominance and manipulation trump cooperation, is impeding such efforts.

Due to the Arab and Persian domination at this later time, many Europeans misconstrued the nature of Swahili civilization as a product of Arab colonization.

Sweden and Russia became the two main competitors for Baltic dominance in the 18th century, and built the largest galley fleets in the world at the time.

During the Middle Ages, the descendants of the Salian Franks, the Carolingian dynasty, came to dominate the area and then extended their rule to a large part of Western Europe.

The situation is similar to Germany s challenge to British geopolitical hegemony in the nineteenth century, when the German economy blossomed.

A look at the Council apos s activities during the period covered by its current report reveals that the Council has increasingly tended to encroach on the functions of other United Nations organs.

America s historical opposition to hegemony in Asia included as a joint aim with China in the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972 remains valid.

As a precise interpretation of dominance had led to some queries, the Commission considered it advisable to include a more specific reference in the methodology in that regard.

However, there was room for progress in implementing article 5 of the Convention.

Symbol of the 12 tribes, once separate, each striving for dominance, but now you, the elders of the tribes, stand before me, banded together, in an indestructible oneness.

Through such endeavors, Brazil hopes to contribute to a more balanced international order, one less subject to hegemonies of any kind, without losing sight of the importance of mutually beneficial partnerships with developed countries.

In a country that regards itself as a civilized counterweight to belligerent American hegemony, nearly half of all prisoners have never been convicted of a crime.

Only the weakest of Asian states will submit willingly to Chinese hegemony or, for that matter, to a Cold War style US led containment strategy.

In particular, Subramanian develops an index of economic dominance that should become a focus of conversation anywhere that people want to think about changes in world economic leadership.

The manipulation of international cooperation in the area of human rights was an insuperable obstacle to the realization of all the rights of Cuba's people and it transformed the international debate on human rights into an instrument of domination.

Under these conditions States can be regarded as formally constituted actors, while peoples under colonial or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation can be seen as informal actors.

In December 1584, an alliance between Philip II and the French Catholic League at Joinville undermined the ability of Anjou's brother, Henry III of France, to counter Spanish domination of the Netherlands.

Was it capitulating to American hegemony? These are real questions, yet at the NATO summit people spoke of them more in terms of symbols than as realities.

The struggle between the leading Sunni power, Saudi Arabia, and Shia Iran for Persian Gulf hegemony threatens to turn Iraq into a battlefield again, including another round of civil war.

OFDI from the BRIC countries Brazil, Russia, India and China is now growing rapidly and looks set to dominate OFDI activity from developing countries in the future (Sauvant 2005).

With the end of the Cold War, China had two options concerning India to regard it as a natural ally, together with Russia, in building up an alternative to American dominance in the region, or to identify it as a potential adversary.

SINGAPORE Not a week passes, it seems, without a big picture thinker releasing a big picture book or giving a big picture sermon describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia.

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient. Edward Said, Orientalism, p.

During his twenty months as CCP General Secretary, Zhao created a culture in which the Politburo refrained from interfering in the courts, and he stopped its attempts to control literature and the arts.

Nusra was pushed out of Aleppo in 2014 by popular pressure, but returned recently. It has clashed with other rebel groups, and its attempts to dominate institutions and the provision of services such as electricity and food supply have made the group unpopular among city residents.

The quest for world tidal dominance has led to a rivalry between the Minas Basin in the Bay of Fundy and the Leaf Basin in Ungava Bay, over which body of water lays claim to the highest tides in the world, with supporters in each region claiming the record.

He condemned the position of delegations that had demonized his country in the Third Committee, behaviour that illustrated the manipulation of international cooperation in the area of human rights and represented an insurmountable barrier to the realization of all human rights, transforming the international debate into an instrument of domination.

14. Stresses the importance of removing obstacles to the realization of the right of peoples to self determination, in particular of people living under colonial or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, which adversely affect their social and economic development, including their exclusion from labour markets