Sentence examples for precedence given from inspiring English sources

The martyr's tearful stare, directed at the sky, could be lamenting the precedence given to entertainment over contemplation.

The system uses the magnitude of the fuzzy membership functions to reflect the human precedence given to each financial ratio.

The system attempts to learn and simulate the human precedence given to particular financial statistics in company analysis.

A White House official told us "other issues are going to take greater precedence," given the difficulty of getting votes for the reform.

So far, there is no constitutional precedence given to Islam in Indonesia, where 85percentt of the country's 210 million people are Muslim but other religions are freely practiced.

As one of the first and most cited and most influential models of CSR (Schwartz & Carroll 2003) this precedence given to economic responsibilities has permeated the subsequent literature and the discourse surrounding CSR.

The drastic separation of families, so that women could be given precedence, gave him grounds to suspect that there were too few lifeboats.

In general, when state law conflicts with federal law, the federal law takes precedence, giving federal prosecutors the discretion to pursue a case or not.

The elaborate system of titulature and precedence gave the court prestige and influence.

If there are disagreements between the nucleotide and amino-acid mapping assemblies, precedence is given to the nucleotide call.

Since many women MPs only entered the chamber in 1997 or 2001, they have in effect been held back while precedence is given to male colleagues.