Sentence examples for Precedence from inspiring English sources

But there is recent precedence for centrist political forces suffering a temporary haemorrhage of support in order to defeat a greater evil.

The Bank of England declined to comment, saying: "In line with convention followed by public bodies, where precedence to criminal trials is afforded wherever possible, it would be inappropriate for the Bank to comment on an active criminal proceeding".

And this happens simply because the kafala is given precedence over the [national and international] labour law".

Whatever the quality of the candidates, personality takes precedence over policy.

"There are several irregularities, but a fundamental point is that a previous release order of habeus corpus was still in place, and my client was respecting its conditions, so it should have taken precedence over the second detainment order.

On the subject of leadership, some respondents argued Germany had demonstrated too much arrogance, while others sensed a reluctance – born of historical precedence – to assume control.

The possibility of a Greek default early next month appears to be moving closer as politicians in Athens raised the possibility that the paying of pensions and salaries over the next few weeks would take precedence over payments to creditors, with the 5 June scheduled payment to the IMF the first test.

The reality of government has taken precedence over Eurosceptic instincts.

But for Treharne and many other sportspeople at university, their degrees take precedence.

If there were any remaining doubts that arms sales take precedence over human rights or concerns about exacerbating regional tensions, the British government has been unashamedly quashing them.

Those take precedence over religious obligations.