Sentence examples for primacy by from inspiring English sources

Far better that Congress defend its own primacy by establishing this finally is a nation of law, not runaway executives.

He promised to help the Venetian Navy, at the Arsenale, regain its primacy, by using physics to improve the placement of oars on the convict-rowed galleys.

Until recently, the predominant European royal families felt compelled to maintain their primacy by marrying relatives such as first and second cousins.

Instead parliament should consist of MPs with legislative primacy by virtue of their primary mandate, and peers discharging their important revising, scrutinising role by virtue of their democratic but secondary mandate.

—(John 21 15 16) Following an ancient tradition, Vatican I defined the Petrine primacy by citing these three texts, interpreting them to signify that Christ himself directly established St. Peter as prince of the Apostles and visible head of the church militant, bestowing on him a primacy not merely of honour but of true jurisdiction.

We have democratized primacy by allowing all of us to choose the most important stories, but that primacy is ultimately owned by a handful of networks with very few restrictions.

The Republican candidates have espoused a range of foreign policy views, from the retrenchment favored by Representative Ron Paul of Texas to the assertion of American primacy voiced by Mr. Romney.

But it lost its Wilshire Boulevard home after a 1994 earthquake and found itself wandering from one place to another, its primacy eclipsed by the Museum of Tolerance and its future in doubt.

The latter province was especially represented by its extraordinarily popular condiment, garum; its olive oil, too, was a sizable item on Italian tables after ad 100, only to yield its primacy there, by the mid-2nd century, to oil from northern Africa.

Orchestra underscores the primacy placed by the new land on music, on culture generally.

Education is the right of all children - and the obligation of all governments, its primacy proclaimed by agreements ranging from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.