The Ashes have a primacy that overshadows this series, but it is not without merit.
Groups of tuatha tended to combine, but the king who claimed overlordship in each group had a primacy of honour rather than of jurisdiction.
From the latter point of view, one thinks of predicate terms as abstract universals that subsume or are satisfied by entities to which the subject terms refer, an approach which conceives of the propositional content, in Stoic terminology the lecton, the what-is-said as having a primacy over the parts.
In decision about single items, the patient perspective has a certain primacy in the sense that items that result from focus group discussions with patients may not be deleted on the request of health care providers or health insurers.
It also has a kind of primacy over the proper name.
Even the San Fernando Valley, partly inside and partly outside the city limits, has a stronger claim to primacy than downtown: it is home to three Fortune 500 companies, including Walt Disney, now arguably the region's most important company.
The arcane quarrels of the Orthodox world came into view when it was reported that a representative of the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate, which has a kind of "moral primacy" in global Orthodoxy, declined to participate fully on grounds that he was not given the place of honour which his institution deserved.
"For the past few months, Mr Modi's travels and public speeches have indicated a primacy to the United States that previous governments had stopped shy of giving," the paper adds.
Ontic Structural Realism (OSR) takes the paramount significance of symmetry groups to indicate that symmetry structures as such have an ontological primacy over objects.
In the early 1990's, most New Yorkers, generally flush with options for entertainment in a city that has an oversized sense of primacy in almost everything, had about 70 channels, compared with more than 100 in most suburban communities.
