Sentence examples for any primacy from inspiring English sources

Quine rejected any primacy for ontology, claiming that ontological categories should be suggested by natural science.

Let's call them production-and-distribution companies (PADs) and be done with the fiction that the modern studios have any primacy, other than the primacy that comes from historical nostalgia, in the filmmaking process.

Watching homophobia being exposed as a shameful weapon wielded by bullies and cowards has been a joy in my life, not because I think it has any primacy over other prejudices, but because it seemed more easily isolated and therefore more easily legislated against.

If you are looking for a single flavor, the show might disappoint you, as it doesn't even have a single protagonist or storyline with any primacy over the others.

Although Thomas was required to profess obedience to Lanfranc and Lanfranc's successors, the obedience did not mention nor was held to acknowledge any primacy of Canterbury, and it did not bind Thomas' successors.

To counter any state's primacy, other states could aggregate their power and balance against the hegemon.

If you had any doubts about the primacy of the betting, those were quickly dispelled.

Cole is adamant that the secular law must enjoy primacy in any modern society.

(The Persuasion Problem) 3) Even if we did agree to grant "health" primacy in any discussion of medicine, it is difficult or impossible to define it with rigor.

(The Persuasion Problem) 3) Even if we did agree to grant "well-being" primacy in any discussion of morality, it is difficult or impossible to define it with rigor.

But when sectarian violence is the byproduct of the first blush of freedom, as it so often is, the army's sense of guardianship over the integrity the state, including the need to guard its own economic interests, eclipses any respect for civilian primacy.