(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.
Supremacy
Definition:
(n.) The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(2) In India, though, the industry – built on sex, race and class supremacy – is not only legal but estimated to be worth more than $1bn (£690m) a year.
(3) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
(4) But the demise of white supremacy does not mean the end of white people, just of their supremacy; given the widespread conflation of the two by discomfited white people, perhaps we do need a month to teach us all the difference.
(5) Combine that with the child sexual abuse scandals that began to surface in the 1980s – and the Vatican's reaction to those scandals – says Woodhead, and you begin to see a slow dissolution of the church's moral supremacy.
(6) In the circumstances, they showed commendable resolve not to allow all the changes and disruption to break their supremacy.
(7) Top floor: a roomful of sombre youths vying for individual supremacy using some form of networked arcade strategy game that uses collectible cards.
(8) Over the past decade, several new treatment alternatives have evolved that challenge the supremacy of traditional surgical cholecystectomy.
(9) "The intelligence system of the Islamic Republic of Iran has achieved a remarkable triumph and intelligence supremacy over the Zionist regime's [Israeli's] espionage system and we succeeded in identifying enemy's elements," Moslehi was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency as saying.
(10) Those who tell you the left has to somehow “reconnect” with people whose minds are full of white supremacy and misogyny must finish the sentence.
(11) His aim, the court heard, was “the creation of an international Aryan group who would establish white supremacy in white countries”.
(12) Students cited far less visible grievances, for example a lack of “serious study into the implications of racism, white supremacy, and imperialism” in the law curriculum, and the lack of a diversity & inclusion office among their complaints.
(13) Perversely, having Barack Obama in the White House seemingly helps perpetuate white supremacy’s continued existence, both by highlighting that individual people of color can attain great heights, and by providing a focal point for anecdotal, individual acts of racial oppression.
(14) The margin of supremacy over the rest this term means they could play in flip-flops for half of their remaining Ligue 1 games and still win the league comfortably .
(15) It is timely.” Tarantino has also spoken about the issue of white supremacy being important in the film, a phrase he has recently used when discussing the use of violence against unarmed black victims of police brutality.
(16) The general supremacy of classical theory of balanced nutrition entailed the tendency to remove ballast substances from food products.
(17) Would it be fair to say that he believes in the supremacy of paint?
(18) Such was the supremacy that Dimitar Berbatov, Robbie Keane and Aaron Lennon could all be substituted well before the close.
(19) Only the flowering of the operative medicine compelled the internal medicine towards the end of the 19th century to give the supremacy over to surgery, because only this part of medicine was able to remove the causes of the disease.
(20) Both main parties do not think to question the supremacy of supposed growth and the idea that national "prosperity" must be king.