(a.) The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.
(a.) The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(2) Significant right-hand asymmetry was found for gestures which depict or represent (motor primary movements,p less than .01) but not for nonrepresentational speech primacy movements.
(3) Its role in keeping the peace, the prevention and detection of crime and upholding the rule of law has been distorted by the primacy given to the colla tion of intelligence by special branch.
(4) Compared to the parallel dominant-language situation, subjects verbalizing in their nondominant language produced more speech-primacy and groping hand movements.
(5) The polarisation of cable shows, led by the popularity in the US of rightwing Fox News and the counter-scheduling of the overtly liberal Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, has created a significant debate around the primacy of debate over straight reporting on US television.
(6) Ignoring the primacy of clinical commissioning groups, it imposed urgent care boards across the country, under the auspices of its local area teams, charged with rapidly producing plans to sort out A&E.
(7) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(8) This paper aims at demonstrating a currently beleaguered assumption: the central importance, the continuing vitality, and the appropriate complexity of Freud's theory of the drives and of his idea of the primacy of the body ego.
(9) And on the Shia side of the Tigris river, militias have primacy over interior ministry or military forces.
(10) The main finding is that schizophrenic subjects show reduced primacy and middle position performance, but are able to match the recency recall of controls.
(11) Although medical journals have been the most important medium for the publication of new medical knowledge for nearly 200 years, recent dramatic advances in the technology of information storage and transfer promise to undermine their primacy.
(12) Treatment alternatives that de-emphasize the primacy of I are offered.
(13) Even fewer could argue with the primacy of effective nutritional care in the achievement of that goal.
(14) CHI patients demonstrated both a recency and primacy effect along with improvement over repeated trials (positive slope learning curve).
(15) The humanity of the patient and his primacy in the profession demand that in radiologic technology education and practice he be given the consideration he should and must have whenever he is in the hands of radiologic technology personnel.
(16) According to the author, the theoretical-historical motive behind this divergent evaluation is already evident in Freud's prepsychoanalytic writings, where he assigns primacy to the written word.
(17) Thus, excellent standards of medical practice can only be developed and maintained if the primacy of clinical skills derived from the study of patients is recognized as essential in this respect.
(18) It has repeatedly been demonstrated that patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) show an absence of the primacy effect when asked to recall a list of items.
(19) Early parkinsonian patients and matched controls were tested with a newly designed, short recency-primacy recognition task.
(20) Nonetheless, we have moved in a few months from a debate about what sort of Brexit, involving a balanced consideration of all the different possibilities, to the primacy of one consideration – namely controlling immigration from the EU – without any real discussion as to why and when Brexit doesn’t affect the immigration people most care about.” Blair’s position contrasts sharply with that of Corbyn, who took the decision to order his MPs to vote in favour of May’s Brexit bill last week.
Priority
Definition:
(a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
(a.) Precedence; superior rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(2) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(3) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(4) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(5) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(6) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(7) The retention of critical care nurses is an important priority of nursing administration.
(8) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(9) In general, thoracic injuries take priority over abdominal, cerebral and orthopaedic injuries, in that order.
(10) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
(11) Theresa May to visit India in signal of trading priorities post-Brexit Read more Cable said India had been keen to expand “ Mode 4 ” market access: the ability to bring in staff – Indian IT experts, for example – as part of trading in services.
(12) He said the ongoing Australian-led search had already scoured 43% of the high-priority area.
(13) Those in power have shown their priorities are their own position, status and importance over the improvement or even the establishment of the nation,” Soliman said.
(14) As a matter of priority the UK is working with the Afghan Government to identify a safe transfer route."
(15) The news comes one week after Marshall announced, in an email to staff, that there would be a shift in research priorities, away from understanding the nature of climate change, and towards adaptation and mitigation.
(16) It’s another squalid reminder of Conservative priorities, and how low they are prepared to sink in pursuit of them.
(17) These activity priorities are considered a working tool for formulation of objectives and development of plans, and do not include a consideration of methodologies for implementation.
(18) In skin grafting the hand restoration of function must always be the priority, but an acceptable appearance is also important and care should be taken in selecting a skin graft that matches the recipient site.
(19) The country's priority now, he added, was to "comfort and care for people who have lived through a nightmare which very few of us can imagine".
(20) Resuscitation and diagnostic evaluation are life-saving priorities of treatment in the emergency room.