Sentence examples for over the paramountcy from inspiring English sources
These demands split the Sotho into rebels and collaborators, and this led to civil war between the Sotho chiefs, who were already in conflict over the paramountcy.
But, perversely, it balanced the paramountcy principle against parents' rights.
Free markets, capitalism, the paramountcy of democracy and civil institutions, equal opportunity.
The paramountcy principle of the Children Act 1989 states that the best interests of the child must be the most important consideration at all times.
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 Children Act, the immediate outcome of the crisis, affirmed, for the first time, the paramountcy of children's best interest.
Professional protocols were rendered useless by these irreconcilable imperatives: the Children Act placed the "paramountcy" of children's best interests against parental rights.
Yet the framework of Being and Time is suffused by a sensibility derived from secularized Protestantism that stresses the paramountcy of original sin.
"If the government does take this legislation forwards the primary focus must remain on the paramountcy principle (putting the child's best interests first) as stated in the Children Act 1989.
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.
