Sentence examples for asserts the priority of from inspiring English sources
He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement or auxiliary to other methods current today.
The fragment itself asserts the priority of the science of calculation (ha logistika, "logistic") to the other sciences, such as geometry, and thus suggests a technical work of mathematics.
So a week after the police crime figures were revealed as fictitious, the home secretary comes along to assert the priority of fighting the alleged scourge of slavery.
Kant's explicit arguments in the Nova dilucidatio for physical influx (in the guise of the principle of succession) are directed primarily against the conception of grounds and existence held by Wolff, Baumgarten, and Meier, and only secondarily against Leibniz (by asserting the priority of bodies over mind rather than vice versa).
Mīr Dāmād returned to Avicenna and sought to harmonize his views with those of al-Suhrawardī on the assumption that what Avicenna meant by his "Oriental" (mashriqiyyah) philosophy was identical with al-Suhrawardī's wisdom of "illumination" (ishrāq), which he interpreted as a Platonic doctrine that asserted the priority of essence (form) over being (existence).
Told at its simplest level, Hadley v. Baxendale is the tale of a litigation contest between two local merchants and a London-based entrepreneur in which the local jury decided for the local merchants and the London judges asserted the priority of their judgment for the national entrepreneur.
In Galen's view, qualitative alteration is needed to produce the powers whereby beneficent Nature directs change: Galen credits the first group with asserting the priority of Nature and its beneficent order, and the latter with denying this.
According to Beauchamp (1976), "public health should be a way of doing justice, a way of asserting the value and priority of all human life" (p. 8), regardless of what one did to merit incarceration.
The Everything-in-Everything principle asserts the omnipresence of ingredients.
