Sentence examples for a certain primacy from inspiring English sources
Although the East has recognized that Rome enjoyed a certain "primacy of honour" among the other patriarchal sees of the first millennium (Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem), it considers hypertrophic the development by which Rome dogmatized its own claim to universal jurisdiction and an infallible teaching authority.
Rawls says that "justice as fairness assigns a certain primacy to the social" (CP 339).
Much of Selena's music forms similar tensions, [such as "Amor Prohibido"], in which the dominant precepts are fashioned as a murmuring, a catty whispering that achieves a certain primacy as a hegemonic disclosure.
In decision about single items, the patient perspective has a certain primacy in the sense that items that result from focus group discussions with patients may not be deleted on the request of health care providers or health insurers.
Under the direction of Steven Fox, the ensemble's artistic director, tempos also took on a certain speechlike freedom that gave the text its rightful primacy and allowed the music to hover over key words.
One of these is the primacy of the play - "The play's the thing!" Another is a certain generational solidarity; an understanding that, for years, the private lives of a great many of their number were criminalised and, after being decriminalised, were so curtailed by disapproval as scarcely to register the change.
