Sentence examples for first precedence from inspiring English sources

What a team is allowed to do and what we think it ought to do can be two quite different things, and when it comes to winning matches players often prefer to give the first precedence over the second, while the press do the reverse.

Hence, in almost all cases where the Archbishop of Canterbury has failed to participate, his place has been taken by a senior cleric: the Archbishop of York is second in precedence, the Bishop of London third, the Bishop of Durham fourth, and the Bishop of Winchester fifth.

The subject delivering first received precedence for matching.

In atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) a time difference of only 3s in spawning revealed first male precedence of over 80% [ 14].

Irradiated (I) and non-irradiated (N) males were mated sequentially to females in a reciprocal mating design, and evidence for first male precedence was inferred as NI families produced offspring more frequently than IN families.

It now stands third in precedence,between marquess (1385) and viscount (1440).

Second, the precedence relations in this problem are much easier than those in the general project scheduling problem.

This species exhibits first-male precedence and so a male can optimise his reproductive success by reducing ejaculate size when the probability of obtaining fertilisations is lower.

For example, in Drosophila, analyses of genetically labeled fluorescent sperm have revealed that stored sperm are highly motile and that modulation of sperm storage, release, and ejection by the female contribute strongly to second-male precedence in that organism (Manier et al., 2010; Lupold et al., 2012).

Selection in gene-based theories of evolution was worked out first, but historical precedence does not entail conceptual priority.

Because Apatosaurus had been named first, it had precedence under the rules of scientific nomenclature.