"That's why the home secretary has agreed a number of significant changes to provide the necessary assurance and guarantee the primacy of the chief constable".
So firm was his belief in the primacy of opinion that Lysenko - the acme of Soviet political correctness - was hired to ensure that DNA be abolished.
Archaeologist Jack Carlson, writing in Foreign Policy magazine, argues that the wholesale copying of architectural culture may have its roots in something much bigger than shameless commercial borrowing: "The ancient parallels for these copycat projects suggest that they are not mere follies, but monumental assertions of China's global primacy".
In his first book, The Corporate Personality: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Corporate Identity (1978), Olins set out his arguments for the primacy of brand thinking for a wider audience than that in the boardroom and on the conference platform.
Some observers have maintained that the decline of the shipyards is punishment for a hubristic sense of primacy among the Protestant working class.
The Rapids eventually pulled a goal back late, but a confident 2-1 win reminded Colorado of RSL's Rocky Mountain primacy.
Conservatives believe in school autonomy and the primacy of parent power.
Apart from the emphasis in Miliband's speech as well as the manifesto on the primacy of public services, he highlighted the launch of a new national primary childcare service.
France, so often Britain's rival, would normally share the desire to ensure the primacy of national leaders.
The first is an argument about the primacy of rising productivity, rather than labour safety regulations, in improving working conditions.
RELATIONS between Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan, and his counterpart in Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, have long been soured by their tussle for regional primacy in Central Asia.
