The Institute was unacquainted with the task of building a vision or future scenarios, and given the fact that the Institute had a marked technology or field orientation (where agricultural disciplines - particularly agricultural engineering - are more predominant), the Institute gave more preeminence to a more linear vision of innovation, divorced from history with an apparent neutrality.
This was partly institutional: the AFL legitimized the emergent trade-union structure that gave preeminence to the rule of the internationals.
Given I.B.M.'s preeminence in the generation and recording of data, it's no surprise that the company keeps an extensive internal archive: thirteen thousand square feet of paper, a vast collection of outmoded products and artifacts, and hundreds of thousands of photographs, according to Paul Lasewicz, I.B.M.'s archivist since 1998.
In Bush v. Gore, the judicial conservatives who presumably believed in the preeminence of states' rights stopped the recount even before it was completed, and before giving the Florida courts a chance to straighten out any problems.
Some have singled out specific aspects, such as electoral institutions giving preeminence to the party in the decision to re-elect politicians (see Jones et al. 2002).
Humanitarian narratives of livelihoods and operational standards tend to the normative and prescriptive, giving preeminence to the 'existing'appropriateand'local'local' (Sphere 2004) without curiosity as to how these have come about (TEC 2006).
Giving preeminence to the cells of highest dimension allows us to generate the geometry and to simulate the physics simultaneously.
Others have established the preeminence of personal relationships in peoples' judgments of their quality of life [ 21].
Baybars wished to legitimize his sultanate and to give preeminence to his rule in the Muslim world.
Before Citizens United, the three major Republican Party committees exerted power because their financial preeminence gave them the final word on the award of contracts to pollsters, direct mail, voter contact, and media consultants – very few of whom were willing to alienate a key source of cash.
