The phrase "a primacy on" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used when discussing the importance or priority given to a particular aspect or issue.
Example: "The organization places a primacy on sustainability in all its operations."
Alternatives: "a focus on" or "an emphasis on".
He is tasked with overhauling a firm that put a primacy on high-risk trading under his predecessor, John J. Mack, and one that has spent the last several years often riven by factional disputes and internal debates over strategy.
Obesity is frowned upon since it places a primacy on food over worship.
"There is a primacy on getting money out of door and there is less urgency on how it is spent or how well it is spent," said Jake Johnston, a research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a policy institute in Washington.
These interventions target regulation of the nervous system rather than putting a primacy on insight and emotion.
One prominent area of leverage is that in both we see a primacy on internal reporting, external disclosure and transparency.
As predicted, the timing of fairness-relevant experiences showed a primacy effect on fairness judgments and acceptance of authority in the high identification conditions and no evidence of such an effect in the low identification conditions.
Asia declares a new primacy on the list, particularly with Japanese firms and, perhaps most notable of all, the first China-based company to make the annual ranking.
The outlines of a struggle for primacy on the streets also seem apparent in what the Interior Ministry says is a decision to insist that weapons carried by members of Shiite-controlled militias that protect certain neighborhoods must also be registered.
After a decade and a half of Labour primacy on the economy, Cameron now outpolls Brown on economic questions.
—(John 21 15 16) Following an ancient tradition, Vatican I defined the Petrine primacy by citing these three texts, interpreting them to signify that Christ himself directly established St. Peter as prince of the Apostles and visible head of the church militant, bestowing on him a primacy not merely of honour but of true jurisdiction.
"I've been in similar situations, where I suddenly discovered we've created military commissions: 'Wait a minute — that's a legal matter and a legal matter the State Department has primacy on.' " But Powell was one of several former Secretaries to express bafflement at Tillerson's approach to his shrinking mandate.
