With a pre-eminence doctrine in place, this problem evaporates for the foreseeable future.
It has a regional population of 3.2 million, and a pre-eminence in the media, arts and sciences, aided by booming universities.
Excerpts follow: His was and is a pre-eminence that rests not on sales figures and honorary degrees, not on rosettes and sashes, but on incontestable legitimacy.
"This being brought into contact, daily, with facts, will upset a great many fancies, and give a pre-eminence of the factual over the imaginative".
They dominate America's mortgage market, a pre-eminence that is becoming controversial because these "federal agencies" are assumed (despite official denials) to be guaranteed by the government (see article).Fannie and Freddie stand accused of using their "government guarantees" to steal business from unambiguously private lenders.
He established from the early 1950s onwards a pre-eminence within Oxford philosophy, both through his publications but also by his quite exceptional critical abilities.
During his hat-trick of victories at Paris-Nice, the Tour of Romandie and Criterium du Dauphine he wore the leader's jersey for 15 of the 21 racing days, a pre-eminence to leave rivals and competing teams choking in the Team Sky dust.
Part of it is the challenges both sides face - Barca in rebuilding from a barren last season, Champions League winners Madrid in maintaining a continental pre-eminence while also waging a successful campaign on home soil.
That this war, again in Bush's own words, will be continuous, global and indefinite in duration is but a logical extension of a US pre-eminence that came of age amid the ashes of Hiroshima.
But as in the games they honour those champions who on the same day gain the garland, both in wrestling and in the pancratium, with the name of "Victors and more," so Cimon, honouring Greece with a sea and land victory on the same day, may claim a certain pre-eminence among commanders.
And in their eyes, Jeter has ascended to a natural pre-eminence.
