Used in connection with Christianity, as in the title of a well-known book, Pan-Americanism in Its Religious Aspect, it provincializes, or at best, continentalizes what is by nature universal.

It was a dreadful interview; I have no hope of getting the job.

The dominance relation directly characterizes the property of subconstituency: X dominates Y if Y is a subconstituent of X.

And when we hit the pavement, we found we had covered the last 54 miles in an hour and twenty minutes.