Sentence examples for of paramountcy from inspiring English sources

It was the perfect pose of paramountcy - the burden that weighed but did not crush".

It was a corollary to the doctrine of paramountcy, by which Great Britain, as the ruling power of the Indian subcontinent, claimed the superintendence of the subordinate Indian states and so also the regulation of their succession.

With success, Shackleton's expedition would restore Britain's sense of paramountcy in exploration.

The Congress' stated position was that the princely states were not sovereign entities, and as such could not opt to be independent notwithstanding the end of paramountcy.

Unlike the Political Department of the British Government, it would not be an instrument of paramountcy, but a medium whereby business could be conducted between the states and India as equals.

The result of this process has been described as being, in effect, an assertion of paramountcy by the Government of India over the states in a more pervasive form.

Nevertheless, the small numbers of whites and British proclamations of the paramountcy of African interests, however limited in practice, differentiated these territories from those farther south.

The court's unanimous refusal to recognise a right to doctor-assisted suicide under the 14th amendment was also a decision from which Justice Brennan, despite his Catholicism, would most probably have dissented, on the ground of the paramountcy of the individual conscience.

And so it continued through Mikhail Gorbachev, the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the tumultuous reign of Boris Yeltsin and the steely paramountcy of Mr. Putin.

In New England and the Middle Atlantic states, an Eastern version of the Civil War had emerged that emphasized Antietam, Gettysburg, and the paramountcy of the Army of the Potomac.

This formulation is consistent with the paramountcy of the welfare of the child in law and policies in the UK, much of the European Union and Australia, but says more about the rights of children than it does about the entitlements of grandparents.