Sentence examples for having a primacy from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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).

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.

"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.

We also differed over the primacy of having a family.

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 also has a kind of primacy over the proper name.

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.

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.