Sentence examples for On primacy from inspiring English sources

Unless people are actively engaging with a story, it tends to fall away as other stories take on primacy.

After Sputnik, as the cold war turned crucially on primacy in science and engineering, both Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy brought into the Oval Office the President's Science Advisory Committee -- a group of our most eminent thinkers -- with no thought of their political affiliation.

The ecclesiastic policies of Maria Theresa, like those of her devout predecessors, were based on primacy of government control in the relations between the Church and the State, but not of organization of the Church.

However, following a number of strategic and political "scares", defence matters slowly began to take on more primacy in the Australian psyche before a review of defence needs was made in 1909 by Field Marshal Lord Kitchener.

It seeks to reconcile two profoundly different value systems, one based on the primacy of reason and science and the other revolving around spiritual and religious values.

However, the second Critique does include an important section that bears on this question: "On the primacy of pure practical reason in its connection with speculative reason" (5:119–121).

Some said they half-expected Mr. Wong himself to stroll in and reveal that his death had been another high-concept put-on, perhaps a sly commentary on the primacy of the artist, in juxtaposition to the work itself.

Confucianism's emphases on human nature and on the primacy of interpersonal relationships in human life arguably make it amenable to feminism, according to some scholars.

The emphasis isn't on the primacy of the individual soloist, but on the weave.

(Punishments are also, of course, imposed on non-citizens who commit crimes within a state's territory: on the primacy of citizenship in understanding criminal law and its authority, and on the status of non-citizens, see Duff forthcoming).

Does it have the capacity?The question forces itself on policymakers just now because the demands placed on American primacy have changed.