The phrase "a precedence of" is not commonly used in written English and may not be the best choice.
It can be used when discussing the priority or importance of something over others, but "precedence" is typically used in a different grammatical structure.
Example: "In this case, we must establish a precedence of ethical considerations over profit."
Alternatives: "a priority of" or "an importance of".
While it may take time to create a crowd, David Yarnold, president of the National Audubon Society, points out that there is a precedence of social movements creating environmental change.
The FBI's history of its past successes enforce the notion that it is a law enforcement agency first and foremost, as shown from its "successful campaign in the 1930s against gangsters such as Al Capone and a dramatic battle in the 1960s and 1970s against the American mafia," in addition to the fact that J. Edgar Hoover started a precedence of FBI Directors having a law degree.
Nevertheless, this analysis represents a precedence of a viable procedure to identify genomic regions carrying functionally relevant variation in (probably regulatory) genes, which is potentially involved in adaptation.
Indeed, there is a precedence of delays in the development of life-saving technologies when the perspective of communities in developing countries is not taken into account: an analogy could be drawn to the field of rotavirus vaccine development.
While intestinal length is clearly a somewhat plastic character, ontogenetic and phylogenetic factors appear more influential than diet on gut dimensions in some fish clades [ 33], suggesting a precedence of genetic adaptation over phenotypic plasticity as the major force acting on the digestive system.
The assured forwarding (AF) per-hop behavior (PHB) group defines a drop precedence of a packet that determines its relative importance compared to other packets [40].
The analysis results establish a precedence order of the properties based on the extent to which these properties influence the temperature and the stresses.
There's a long precedence of websites being hacked and used as a beachhead for activities that in most cases are far more damaging than blackhat SEO.
(In assigning categories to loci, if a locus contains proteins in more than one category, A takes precedence of B, which takes precedence over C). 13% of all expression mechanism loci have a category A protein, substantially more than for other mechanisms.
Second, if hippocampal firing orchestrates EC activity during AM+, there should be a temporal precedence of hippocampal relative to EC spikes.
However, while this study revealed a temporal precedence of the cortical response to motor attributes (versus non-motor attributes), it did not find distinct cortical networks involved in processing the different word categories [31].
