Sentence examples for paramountcy over from inspiring English sources

To the denunciations of the pope and the interdict under which he had been placed Sverrir responded with his "Speech Against the Bishop," the clearest argument of the time in favour of secular paramountcy over the church.

Lord Mornington, the ambitious Governor-General of British India, seized on the opportunity to extend Company influence into the Maratha Empire which he perceived as the final obstacle to British paramountcy over the Indian subcontinent.

The second was a policy of indirect rule, where the British assumed suzerainty and paramountcy over princely states, but conceded to them sovereignty and varying degrees of internal self-government.

In 1858, the policy of annexation was formally renounced, and British relations with the remaining princely states thereafter were based on subsidiary alliances, whereby the British exercised paramountcy over all princely states, with the British crown as ultimate suzerain, but at the same time respected and protected them as allies, taking control of their external relations.

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.

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.

But, perversely, it balanced the paramountcy principle against parents' rights.

In 1818 Jodhpur came under British paramountcy.

It came under British paramountcy in 1818.

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

Free markets, capitalism, the paramountcy of democracy and civil institutions, equal opportunity.