Sentence examples for gave primacy from inspiring English sources

The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 gave primacy to the federal government.

Editor, author, and diplomat, Mr. Grunwald's distinguished career always gave primacy of place to the written word.

Capréolus invoked Aquinas in order to combat the dominant nominalists, who denied the real existence of universals (qualities or properties in virtue of which a class of objects is referred to by the same general term) and gave primacy to the will over the intellect.

Other actors were drawn by expansive roles — "I got be to a cowboy and a robot at the same time!" Ms. Wood recalled with glee — that gave primacy to characters most westerns leave on the margins, like the madam or the frontier girl next door.

In an 1891 encyclical, states Grim, "Pope Leo XIII strongly affirmed 'the condition of the workers' in which their labor had become a mere commodity in an economic milieu that gave primacy to a free market and unregulated exploitation of workers".

Consequently, its 2006 guidelines gave primacy to angiotensin modifying drugs and calcium channel blockers, with a substantial influence on prescribing behaviour in England and Wales (fig 1 ). 2 The updated guidelines published last August (www.nice.org.uk/CG127) maintain this view, but how strong is the evidence?

A predistributive approach gives primacy to reform.

For giving primacy to the body and feeling its every inch.

Bathrooms are given primacy at this old electricity plant on the banks of Nieuwe Maas river.

The need for secrecy is being given primacy above everything else.

"The courts do not give primacy to these matters," she says.