Others foresee that the G8, which groups some of the world's largest economies under a Pax Americana, may yield to a "G-Zero" in which America loses primacy and no single country holds sway.
An adulthood in which there is a primacy of friendship.
The battles were those of the Yalu (September 17 , 1894, the Yellow Sea (August 10 and 14, 1904), and Tsushima (May 27 29 , 1905, in which the gun regained primacy to such an extent that the Russian vice admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov could confidently write, "A good gun causes victory, armour only postpones defeat".
The universe reflected by Psalm 148 is a harmonious order in which humans have no primacy even if they have their own special place.
But, unless work is collectively devised, British theatre has always operated with a distinct pecking order in which the written word has primacy.
Foucault, among others, has described this privileging, or this flow of power, as bio-power, operating in and through the significant historical transition contemporaneous with the shaping of industrial capitalism, in which emphasis shifts from the primacy of sovereignty, law, and coercion or the force "to take life -- to the development of new forms of power constitutive of life [ 1].
This irrational primacy effect is independent of the primacy effect in memory in which the earlier items in a series leave a stronger memory trace.
It also laid bare a scramble for influence in the German news media in the post-Gutenberg era, in which the Internet has usurped the primacy of the printing press.
In the case of China, the term is increasingly employed to paint a picture of a 21st-century version of the Great Game, the 19th-century maneuvering for primacy in Central Asia, in which China's search for oil is merging with its desire for greater influence, from Africa to Latin America to the Middle East.
Realists emphasize power and security issues, the need for a state to maximize its expected self-interest and, above all, their view of the international arena as a kind of anarchy, in which the will to power enjoys primacy.
