Sentence examples for had primacy over from inspiring English sources

The constitution confirmed that EU law had "primacy" over national law and gave the EU the power to sign international treaties on behalf of its member countries.

El Greco regarded color as the most important and the most ungovernable element of painting, and declared that color had primacy over form.

Soon after Henry's coronation Gerard was appointed to the recently vacant see of York, and became embroiled in the long-running dispute between York and the see of Canterbury concerning which archbishopric had primacy over England.

He also mentioned that trying Gaddafi on Libyan soil was "very important" to the Libyans, by whom he presumably meant the non-elected National Transitional Council (NTC), whom he also claimed had "primacy" over the case.

In the revised 2003 definitions, facilitating a bedside diagnosis of sepsis had primacy over research entry criteria [ 3, 4].

Since facilitating a bedside diagnosis of sepsis had primacy over research entry criteria [ 3], due to the term "some", uncertainty remained, how many of the 2003 variables to use to assign sepsis to a patient.

And on the Shia side of the Tigris river, militias have primacy over interior ministry or military forces.

The proposed constitution also states that European Union law will have primacy over that of member states.

There is a space for a fill or a roll at the end of a musical phrase, but the beat has primacy over the curlicues.

No one — well, maybe the boss but certainly not our peers — has primacy over, or immunity from, the needy bleat of an incoming text message.

Against scientific counsel otherwise, though, politicians have decided that industrial activities have primacy over the conservation needs of endangered caribou (and frankly, all things living).