dominance

Preposition: of

• supermarket: Much of the blame lies with the spread and dominance of supermarket and chain stores.
• grass: Grazing can promote diversity of flora and fauna by reducing the dominance of grasses such as purple moor-grass and wavy hair-grass.

Converse of object

• assert: Behavior that reinforces gender order, asserts male dominance, and diminishes women is everywhere.
• exert: Lying Diagonally and taking over the whole bed could be a territorial issue, trying to exert dominance over your partner!
• confer: As a consequence of co-evolution with their hosts, viruses have acquired host genes and genetic mutations that confer dominance over normal cell function.
• reinforce: Some hold that it will stimulate reform and others that it will hinder it by reinforcing the dominance of the LDP.
• attain: Wharfedale have always been a difficult side to beat and Saturday was no exception as the Yorkshire side sought to attain dominance up front.
• achieve: Under the current voting system, a single party can achieve dominance on a council despite securing a minority of the votes cast.

Adjective modifier

• apical: Apical dominance: The inhibition of growth in axillary buds by auxins produced in the growing shoot apex.
• cerebral: About one person in five is expected not to carry the hypothesized gene of typical cerebral dominance.
• territorial: One study found that white victimization was the result of ethnic minorities ' resistance to racial abuse linked to territorial dominance.
• male: Some messages from some of the females who subscribe to FISO would help to even out the male dominance on the forum!
• continued: Only American football seems sure of its continued dominance, one of the benefits of exclusivity.
• imperial: This dovetailed neatly into lines by Kipling from the days of Britain's own imperial dominance.

Modifies a noun

• hierarchy: On a slightly different theme: Is there a dominance hierarchy among the species on your feeder?
• dimension: The dominance dimension will, of course, be measured by LD.
• index: Thus 29 of the 39 towns have a linear dominance index above the theoretical midpoint of 50.

Noun used with modifier

• superpower: It laid the foundations for superpower dominance by USA and USSR, in which USA prevailed.
• spectrum: Its goal is to achieve " fully spectrum dominance " : a monopoly of the use of space for military purposes.
• market: Its public service role is its defense against accusations of market dominance.