An atmosphere of science-fiction irreality would be punctuated by preposterous intrusions of everyday life: the petulance of the President; his wheedling conversations on the telephone with Kissoff, the Soviet Premier; the squabbles, tantrums, and jockeying for position among diplomats and military men; the petty human ego struggling for precedence right up to the moment of apocalypse.
"Marriage is about sacrifice, about one person's job taking precedence right now, with the understanding that the other spouse's needs will take precedence in the future," DiSilverio said.
The captain general of Granada, in charge of defense and internal security, was quarreling with the municipal council of Granada and with the audiencia, the supreme court for Andalusia, over precedence, rights of jurisdiction, and the ownership of some pastures.
Trade agreements grant extraordinary new rights and privileges to foreign corporations and investors that formally give corporate rights precedence over the right of governments to govern their own affairs.
Quinn argues that we cannot give positive rights precedence over negative rights without incoherence.[14] And, hence, he concludes that we must give negative rights precedence over positive rights.
We are living in an environment in which property rights hold precedence over human rights.
But if the fetus wins, if a girlfriend's abortion decades ago gets blamed for someone's suicide, if "personhood rights" take precedence over women's rights, we will be back in the dark ages.
"In this particular case, artistic freedom took precedence over the right of privacy, which can be encouraging to photographers," said Joëlle Verbrugge, a French lawyer, photographer and author of the Droit et Photographie blog, which focuses on photography rights.
Conversely, one could also contend that defending the weak against the oppression of the strong is a moral duty that takes precedence over the right to be left unmolested.
Those who argue for reducing the limit further - Nadine Dorries MP among others - cite evidence that more than half of foetuses born at 24 weeks survive and that this fact should take precedence over the right of the mother to determine her own future.
Indeed, in a paper in 1894 he allied himself with the Utilitarians in claiming that the general welfare takes precedence over the rights of individuals and went so far as to say that "the right of the moral organism is absolute" over and against the rights of its members (Collected Essays, p. 158).
