Sentence examples for had precedence from inspiring English sources

The stymieing of thought and of ideas has always had precedence in every epoch.

For the first time the two parts of the empire were truly separate, except for the selection of consuls, in which Valentinian had precedence.

They relaxed their traditional principles and practice because the establishment of the Party seemed a necessity that had precedence over all others.

Her lawyers, led by the dean of the law school, Mathew D. Staver, and Ms. Lindevaldsen, invoked the federal Defense of Marriage Act to argue that Virginia's laws had precedence and that Ms. Jenkins was not a parent.

The new royal infant will be third in line to the throne whether it is a boy or a girl, thanks to a recent legal change, ending hundreds of years during which male heirs had precedence over elder sisters, sometimes with notable historical consequences.

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

And because omertà has precedence over the law, few mafia murders are solved.

"That one group has precedence is ridiculous," said Mr. Solomon, a painter and sculptor in East Hampton.

Pope Francis, for example, was a cardinal-priest.Even though cardinals have precedence over other Catholic prelates, what they hold is more of a title than a rank.

If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the Government, let the question of woman be brought up first and that of the negro last.

Sometimes a count's nobility was better established and his fief greater than that of any marquis; sometimes a marquis with a royal patent should obviously have precedence.