The United Nations and NATO have never been able to exert dominance in that area.

Some neocons now dominate the highest councils of government, seem determined to exert American dominance throughout the world, and approve of preemptive war as an acceptable avenue to reach this imperialistic goal.

This may have exerted dominance over the pre-Islamic poets of the 6th century whose popularity may have vied with the Qur'an amongst the people.

Presiding over the story is frequently a patriarchal figure who exerts an untoward power and dominance over the other characters.

That continent began to exert political and cultural dominance over human societies around the planet, a time known as the Colonial era (also see Age of Discovery).

The game ends with the destruction of a large spacecraft by Slater; the closing sequence reveals that Nanosoft had planned to use this to exert military dominance over other corporations.

The Feasting model by Brian Hayden suggests that agriculture was driven by ostentatious displays of power, such as giving feasts, to exert dominance.

Not knowing their new teacher, the boys plan to exert dominance over the teacher.

We cannot allow Tibet or any other 21st century nation to be extinguished by a dictatorship, a tyranny, or by the sadistic desire to exert political dominance.