So here Mr. Lamar was in Brooklyn — what better opportunity to assert his primacy than this?
Each seeks to assert his primacy in his father's affections, and also his self-sufficiency as an adult.
Since his debut album Mr. West has boldly asserted his primacy, demanding that others — critics, award shows, other artists — fall in line.
Cooder, together with Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt and other musicians, helped Hooker assert his primacy among the senior bluesmen of the late 1980s and 90s.
Jets West is an opportunity for Sanchez to assert his primacy 2,800 miles from the team's headquarters in New Jersey, away from the coaches and the support staff and the front office, even though it could be snatched from him in the next two months.
The official North Korean announcement of the execution on 12 December of Chang Song-thaek, the North's second most prominent official and uncle of the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, is a brutal but potentially politically risky move by Mr Kim to assert his political primacy and a shift towards an increasingly centralised and personalised system of rule.
Then James asserted his authority.
Although he reaches out in relatively generous terms to the followers of other religions and none, Francis is unshakeable in asserting the primacy of his own faith, and in his belief that Christianity's founding events have consequences for every human being.
This belief powers The Deluge at Norderney, which, more than any other Dinesen story, asserts the primacy of storytelling.
Panto asserts the primacy of the audience and the wild, dangerous energy that is unleashed when they step out of the shadows.
