Sentence examples for affirm the priority from inspiring English sources

At the debate in Sparta, described in Book I of Thucydides' History, the Athenians affirm the priority of self-interest over morality.

Protestant theologians from Luther and Calvin to Karl Barth have thus affirmed the priority of faith not only to "works" but also to natural theology.

Whereas Zhu had insisted on the priority of "pattern" over qi, (roughly, form over matter), Wang and Dai followed the Northern Song thinker Zhang Zai in affirming the priority of qi, viewing patterns as a posteriori evolutionary realizations of qi interactions.

The first linguistic theorist to affirm this priority explicitly was Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 1835), whose approach eventually culminated in the celebrated "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis," formulated by the American linguists Edward Sapir (1884 1939) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897 1941) on the basis of their work on the diverse (and disappearing) indigenous languages of North America.

Consider the case in which normatively we affirm a priority of health principle, but empirically the relative income hypothesis is correct that is, an individual's life expectancy is also a function of her income as compared to others' income in her society and not simply of its non-comparative level.

That's the priority".

"The priority is survival".

Iraq remains the priority.

So what becomes the priority?

The Priority Score.

Winning is the priority.