Sentence examples for primacy in the face of from inspiring English sources

This appears valid, but we have to admit to ourselves that the PC market is hemorrhaging primacy in the face of smartphones and tablets, which are massive revenue drivers for OEMs around the world.

The aim of the West-Eastern Divan is to assert the primacy of artistic cooperation in the face of divisive politics.

The significance of that ruling for the future of government-press relations has been debated, but this much was certain: It established the primacy of a free press in the face of a government's insistence on secrecy.

"Moneyball" explicitly takes the side of mathematics against poetry: Beane and Brand insist on the primacy of hard statistical data in the face of traditionalists on the A's staff who wax on about "intangibles".

The president's decision to establish the center is an apparent setback for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Mueller, who has struggled to maintain the F.B.I.'s primacy over domestic intelligence and counterterrorism in the face of bitter complaints that the bureau's case-oriented approach to terrorism had contributed to its failure to deter the attacks.

As Windows slips in the face of a sliding personal computing market, hurting OEM revenues for the company, new business products at Microsoft will command increasing internal primacy as its business adapts to current and future market conditions.

Lévinas holds that the primacy of ethics over ontology is justified by the "face of the Other".

We tend to overanalyze media moguls, in part because of their primacy in the current age.

On the other hand, China's ascendance has marked the limitations of US and Western primacy in the international order.

One by one, contenders for primacy in the drama fall away as Melville finds himself gripped above all by the idea and image of the Pequod's "moody stricken" captain with a "crucifixion in his face".

While primacy effects could have resulted in greater proportions of respondents in the face-to-face interviews selecting the first category of parents' highest education level (completed primary school), these respondents also had a greater proportion of responses in the last category (university degree or higher).