The phrase "claim precedence" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to assert or demand to be given priority or preference over something or someone else. Example: The two companies have been in a legal battle for years, each one claiming precedence over the other in the market.
This told of King Arthur's having a round table made so that none of his barons, when seated at it, could claim precedence over the others.
Whatever ravages Thomas De Quincey suffered as a result of his addiction, it gave him an important subject, without which he would probably go unread today, and Poe was beset by so many torments that none can claim precedence.
Some rival prosecutors in the assorted jurisdictions have already talked of claiming precedence and seeking the death penalty in the case.
Rezak spent the morning hours ferrying boxes and chairs and rugs down from the main road to the picnic spot, taking the biggest loads, pushing himself forward, claiming precedence on his plot of land.
Guise claimed precedence over all other French nobles and eventually aroused the King's distrust; as provincial governor he acted so independently of the crown as to incur the displeasure of the Parlement of Paris.
Further towards the center is the classical nationalism that gives nation-centered claims precedence over individual interests and many needs (including pragmatic collective utility), but not necessarily over general human rights.
In response to the same tension that motivated Aquinas to give more emphasis to the intellect in the definition of transcendental truth, the transcendental true was advanced to claim conceptual precedence before and hence challenge the conceptual priority of the concept of being.
By asserting Christian appropriation of pagan customs as fact, modern paganism could claim both precedence and wrongful treatment, citing Pope Gregory's letter as if that settled it.
That doctrine holds that the first person to make "beneficial use" of water gains the right to use that quantity for that purpose forever, and that the claim takes precedence over every claim made later.
At one rather unpalatable extreme, nation-focused claims take precedence over any other claims, including over human rights.
Throughout the search results, listings from blogs that have been claimed gain precedence over unclaimed listings.
