Cowley posited that bohemian ideas about the primacy of self-expression and living for the moment "encouraged a demand for all sorts of products — modern furniture, beach pajamas, cosmetics, colored bathrooms with toilet paper to match".
The protocol [ 12] emphasized the primacy of self-efficacy throughout the behavior change process and the importance of framing performance to enhance efficacious judgments.
This statement reinforces the conclusion that it is the primacy of self-interest that will drive foreign policy under the Cameron government, potentially even more so than it had under Brown.
Yang Zhu, on the other hand, advocated the primacy of the self and the nourishment (yang) of one's nature (xing) rather than investing one's time and energy in social concerns and institutions that (Yang suggested) violated that nature.
James Nolan, in his book "The Therapeutic State," has shown how the emphasis on the primacy of the self has penetrated major areas of government: emotivist arguments trump reasoned discourse in Congressional hearings and criminal justice; and in public education, self-esteem vies with basic literacy in evaluating students.
The study highlights the primacy of scientists' self-motivation, and suggests that a fuller explanation of their commercial behaviour will need to consider a broader mix of motives to include the social and affective aspects of intrinsic motivation.
It's like an Oulipian stunt, whereby the author keeps insisting on the primacy of raw, unmediated self-revelation in literature while revealing nothing much about himself beyond the sort of self-revelatory books he likes, and nothing much about those books apart from the fact that he likes them.
And such is the movie's nagging insistence on the primacy of our romantic selves — rather than our professional or political ones — that some characters are caught in mid-malaise before we even grasp who they are.
Before the antiterror campaign, the issue of missile defense was the single most important test of how the Bush administration would balance the new primacy of unfettered American self-interest against a pragmatic respect for the rest of the civilized world.
Furthermore, narratives show that from the standpoint of ethics there is a kind of primacy of the other-than-self over the self.
