Leopold von Ranke emphasized the primacy of geography and external threats in shaping foreign policy, but later writers emphasized domestic factors.
Potamkin emphasized the primacy of directing in the art of movies, but he also wrote extensively about other aspects of the art — cinematography, production design, music, and movie acting, which he recognized as distinct from theatrical performance.
In contrast to medieval scholasticism, which advocated the use of reason but emphasized the primacy of revelation, Lutheran theology subordinated revelation and declared reason to be the key to understanding the will of God.
According to the Catholic Web sites AsiaNews and UCANews, a number of nuns and seminarians who supported him were punished or forced to attend "political education" classes that emphasized the primacy of the party-run association.
Lacan emphasized the primacy of language as constitutive of the unconscious, and he tried to introduce the study of language (as practiced in modern linguistics, philosophy, and poetics) into psychoanalytic theory.
Other critics, such as Thierry Groensteen and Scott McCloud, have emphasized the primacy of sequences of images.
(For a number of years, he has used the word "Your" in his exhibition titles, to emphasize the primacy of the viewer's experience).
All of the heads are a little too large for their bodies (when human), which emphasizes the primacy of thought and feeling and also enhances the claustrophobic atmosphere.
"They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs".
Unity, however, is closer to New Thought, which in general emphasizes the primacy of mind and spiritual healing, than it is to Christian Science.
Each of these widely spaced shows sheds light on a different aspect of his career; cumulatively they emphasize the primacy of the Kippenberger persona -- as conceptualizer, performer, artist, traveler and increasingly fragile human being -- in his art.
