Sentence examples for precedence at from inspiring English sources

By 400 the patriarch of Constantinople (to his avowed embarrassment) enjoyed precedence at court before all civil officials.

"Certainly other issues took precedence at the time," Dr. Cohn added, "but the continuing inattention is both inexcusable and embarrassing.

Mr. Hastings is essentially admitting that he and his colleagues should be subject to whatever government whim takes precedence at the moment.

"The political optics of the OPEC decision are likely to take precedence at this meeting," Greg Priddy, an analyst at the Eurasia Group, said in a research note.

In our schools the arts are being squeezed as the English bac (Ebac) – a regressive model of education that includes no arts subjects – is taking precedence at GCSE, and at university level humanities are under serious threat.

Since then they have been in full retreat as the securocracy has convinced David Cameron and his ministers, including the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, that national security takes precedence at all times.

Corruption, favoritism and nepotism are long-running grievances among Jordanians, and calls for investigations into corruption take precedence here at nearly all protests.

Margaret Thatcher was an exception who made little difference to the representation of women at the top of British political life – just look at David Cameron's current cabinet (four women out of 22, of whom the highest-ranked in precedence is at No 6).

Following the Linear Correspondence Axiom (Kayne 1994), which states that the asymmetrical c-command relation is mapped to the precedence relation at PF, the hierarchy of hai in 16 predicts that hai with distinct meanings can be ordered as in 22. (22) hai additive > hai temporal /hai additive > hai comparative /hai marginal.

Other nonclinical issues, although important, including insurance coverage and cost, should not take precedence over at least initially selecting the most appropriate treatment possible.

Up to now, last male sperm precedence is at least verified in one of the species investigated here (for guppies) but it was not the focus of investigations into the other species.