Broadly reconstructed, in his later political work he argued that the emergence of European totalitarianism exemplified by both National Socialism and Communism was the result of a decline in political humanity and of an increasing primacy of modes of technical or instrumental rationality, which erode the authentic resources of human life.
And also a nod to the increasing creative primacy of TV with Primetime, which offers big screen premieres to small-screen shows.
Increasing public engagement with the issue – as well as an increasing recognition of the primacy of personal autonomy that continues to dominate both ethics and law– have also led to initiatives to change the law in the United States.
In practice, however, auditors rarely recognize as valid evidence the forms of proof put forward by local communities, and global conglomerates could even use the standards to increase their primacy vis-à-vis local farmers [56].
As Windows slips in the face of a sliding personal computing market, hurting OEM revenues for the company, new business products at Microsoft will command increasing internal primacy as its business adapts to current and future market conditions.
On the contrary, American primacy increased in the 1980s and 90s.
This doctrine, known as "shareholder primacy," now reigns in the corporate world today, and it has so increased the power of those whom it has benefited that it will not be easy to dislodge.
Solon's social legislation seems generally designed to reduce the primacy of the family and increase that of the community, or polis.
Israel faces increasing hostility in the region as Mr. Arafat has reasserted the primacy of the Palestinian cause in the Arab world.
It's as if the sixties were really just beginning and also already pointing ahead to the seventies — the primacy of work life, the rise in the divorce rate, women's increasing power.
