In short, the British yielded primacy to others, and particularly to the Americans, with less grace than their pretensions to gentlemanly virtues should have warranted.
As a devotee of the cult of King Arthur he also attempted to enforce claims to primacy within the British Isles.
Its success made Dylan a pop icon, as Paul Williams notes: Record producer Paul Rothchild, producer of The Doors' first five albums, recalled the elation that an American musician had made a record that successfully challenged the primacy of the British Invasion groups.
The relationship between Westminster and Brussels; the flaws in our voting system; the primacy – or otherwise – of British courts; the Union between England and the UK's other component parts; the proper role of the monarchy … all these are issues with the potential to change fundamentally the character of British life.
The word itself owes its popularity to Edward Burnett Tylor, a late 19th century British anthropologist whose distaste for the primacy of the Roman Catholic worldview isn't exactly obvious when you read him today.
In a British theatre culture where the playwright has primacy and the text is considered sacred, mucking about with it is often considered a crime against art.
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But some British executives are worried that London will lose its primacy, noting that Mr. Seifert is to become chief executive of the combined entity.
She goes beyond the usual understanding about the primacy of the playwright to suggest that British theatre is in thrall to the idea of the individual, whether that person is writer, director or star actor.
