Groups of tuatha tended to combine, but the king who claimed overlordship in each group had a primacy of honour rather than of jurisdiction.
In some matters, government still provides the typical minimal state safeguards (as regards peace, safety, and security) and has a primacy over safeguarding a minimal and equal share in wealth (as regards social security).
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.
Ontic Structural Realism (OSR) takes the paramount significance of symmetry groups to indicate that symmetry structures as such have an ontological primacy over objects.
It argues that the Form of a triangle presupposes the existence of a Form of a line, and adds that this ideal line cannot have parts, presumably because parts are taken to be prior to the whole they compose and Forms need to have a kind of primacy to be explanatory.
"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.
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.
At the moment, "replacement" may not be the issue, but if history teaches us anything, it is that we have a habit of giving primacy to profit and efficiency.
Such privileges have a long history: the primacy of political influence in Italy was always contended by the secular and religious powers, in a tradition of disputes, intrigues and power games.
Does the United States have a chance to regain its primacy in Africa again?
