Sentence examples for claim primacy from inspiring English sources

They are competing with Turkmens and Sunni Arabs who claim primacy of ownership to some of the same territory, particularly the city of Kirkuk and its surrounding province.

Even Orthodox Christians, who often resent what they see as the Vatican's attempt to claim primacy among the Christian churches, said today that they welcomed the pope.

The Siachen exists deep in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas, in a no man's land where India, Pakistan and China each claim primacy over a landscape of rock and snow not even its mother could love.

The tribunal can claim primacy over national courts and may take over national investigations and proceedings at any stage if this is deemed to be in the interest of international justice.

Kirkuk, an oil-rich region north of Baghdad, has been at the center of the stalemate over Iraq's election laws, as Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens claim primacy within the region.

Stephen Carter makes no such grand claim in the FT, just: "Digital Britain revives the concept of a UK industrial policy in one sector where the UK can still claim primacy".

Now it claims primacy.

He claims primacy for the Camorra among Italy's five Mafias.

Mr. Pataki and Representative Benjamin A. Gilman, the senior New York Republican in Congress, have each claimed primacy on the appointments, while the White House has not said how it will resolve the situation.

These authors claimed primacy of hormesis over threshold dose responses in 2003 (Calabrese and Baldwin 2003b).

Basic to the claim of primacy is the Petrine theory, according to which Christ promised the primacy to Peter alone and, after the Resurrection, actually conferred that role upon him (John 1 42 and 21 15 ff. and, especially, Matthew 16:18 ff).