Sentence examples for asserting the primacy from inspiring English sources

To make such a contention in a place that is not a pub is like asserting the primacy of astrological truth at a Cal Tech reunion.

Asserting the primacy of civilian control over a failing military is, however, the last thing on the mind of President Asif Zardari.

Fortuitously for Magill, the word has colorful origins: its first recorded English use was in 1533 by the Protestant reformer John Frith, shortly before being burned at the stake for asserting the primacy of individual conscience over church dogma.

By the time 'Hungry Like the Wolf' became a global hit in 1983, they were the right boys in the right shade of rouge at the right time: MTV was just starting, asserting the primacy of 'look' over technique.

The oil and gas industry was alarmed by the grassroots insurgency and the state's Republican politicians struck back with a flurry of measures aimed at asserting the primacy of state control over local regulations.

Michael Howard, a former party leader, and William Hague, the former foreign secretary, both floated ways of asserting the primacy of the House of Commons after the government launched a review of the relationship between the chambers.

This asserted the primacy of public health over IPR.

This is not to assert the primacy of my own experience with the film.

This produced eucharistic exclusion, used to assert the primacy of the Church of England, especially among followers of the Oxford movement.

This belief powers The Deluge at Norderney, which, more than any other Dinesen story, asserts the primacy of storytelling.

It fluently punctured the assumptions of those who asserted the primacy of European art music over all other music cultures.