noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cultural
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There is a fixed pot of political power and cultural dominance .
economic
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By far the most important aspect of this uneven development was the undermining of the economic dominance of the United States.
male
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There are many theories as to the origins of male dominance in human society.
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It takes the male dominance in our culture and uses that to limit the power of the symbol.
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Stereotypical images of women are used to legitimise male dominance .
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Pressure was applied with cool precision: women had discovered that to sidestep male dominance was to avoid destructive rage.
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For our purposes, as we shall see, the assumption of male dominance may be a good case in point.
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The fears always have to do with undermining male solidarity and dominance .
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In short, male dominance can be strongly suggested in pictorial representation without the patriarchal male being directly represented at all.
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Berkoff's customary disgust with the human race is here directed at male dominance and brutality.
political
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An end to unity on the left, and thereby of its political dominance , was in sight.
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Kung San neighbors' hunting life for farming, there is less food sharing and more political dominance within each band.
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The incident suggested that the movement was seeking to extend its campaign for political dominance beyond the province of Natal.
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The ruling class was clearly visible in terms of its life-style, attitudes, accents and political and social dominance .
■ NOUN
market
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Equally, market dominance is not in itself unlawful under Article 86 of the Treaty of Rome.
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New competitors quickly diminished the company's market dominance .
■ VERB
challenge
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Its methods and values have rarely been able to challenge the dominance of conservative normativism.
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It is likely to challenge your dominance regularly at first.
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Labour policy has long sought to challenge the Treasury's dominance in government.
ensure
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The Pluralist concern with management is, for the Structuralist, simply another means of ensuring the continued dominance of the rich.
establish
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More important in establishing his general dominance was his closeness to the crown.
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In this culture, establishing dominance is often exalted.
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Keepers hope he will establish his dominance over them and the females will choose him.
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Neil was given this test as part of his evaluation prior to surgery, establishing his left-brain dominance for language.
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They liked books and ideas, and they liked to talk about them in ways that fostered growth rather than established dominance .
maintain
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They can no longer count on maintaining their dominance in the jeans market.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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military dominance
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if they challenge the bureaucratic-military oligarchy for dominance , they are likely to be confronted by a coupd'état.
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But the theorists do not specify precisely how important Fordism was, nor how its hypothesized dominance was established.
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Cooley acknowledges the class structure as a pervasive reality and he too is distressed by the dominance of the top class.
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In this culture, establishing dominance is often exalted.
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Parasites, for instance, affect dominance , at least in mice.
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There, too, Theseus and the Minotaur struggle for dominance .