Sentence examples for of a primacy from inspiring English sources

This would seem to reinforce the notion of a primacy of visual over kinesthetic information, at least in the case of bonobos and orangutans.

Our finding that only disgusting pictures, especially in the animal-reminder category, differentiate conservatives from liberals might be indicative of a primacy for disgust in the pantheon of human aversions, but it is also possible that this result is due to the fact that, compared to threat, disgust is much easier to evoke with visual images on a computer screen.

In 380 the Arians were relieved of their churches in Constantinople, and in 381 the Nicaean faith was universally imposed by a council whose canons established the authority of the metropolitan bishops over their dioceses and gave the bishop of the capital a primacy similar to that of the bishop of Rome.

But it is also true that Suhrawardi's "phenomenological epistemology of eidetic vision" could easily imply a primacy of essence (Rizvi 1999: 224).

Groups of tuatha tended to combine, but the king who claimed overlordship in each group had a primacy of honour rather than of jurisdiction.

Bartholomew I, the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch who enjoys a "primacy of honour" among the bishops of the Orthodox world, will have a symbolically resonant meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem on May 25th.

Everywhere a primacy of economic interests over concerns of social cohesion changes public morality and fosters intolerance.

An adulthood in which there is a primacy of friendship.

The elder Mr Miliband enjoys a primacy of sorts: urged by some to challenge Mr Brown for the party leadership early this year, he snagged the most important office after refusing to do so.

They all believe and they all promulgate a primacy of the income accounts.

Equally, Rorty's epistemological behaviorism must not be confused with an idealism that asserts a primacy of thought or language with respect to the unmediated world, since this, too, is a position that is undercut by Rorty's Davidsonian position.