It was their function to adjudicate the priority claims concerning natural selection as the mechanism for evolution, which had been advanced simultaneously by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
Accordingly, for a given set of norms, the claim that meaning/content is essentially normative can be read in different ways: As a claim that remains neutral on the question of metaphysical priority, as claiming priority for meaning/content, or as claiming priority for norms.
Therefore, to understand better the debate over the content and legitimate scope of human rights and the priorities claimed among them, it is useful to note the dominant schools of thought and action that have informed the human rights tradition since the beginning of modern times.
For example, an article on setting research priorities claims that few biomedical researchers really consider the needs of the patients and clinicians, and some fail to systematically review what is already known before they start a new research project.
One firm, in attempting to prove their priority claim, sent us two swatches and and a letter from Mrs. Roosevelt.
When Kelly heard of Bessemer's patents, he filed a priority claim and in 1857 received a U.S. patent superseding Bessemer's patents.
In fact, UK taxpayers are expected to recoup all of the £4.3bn owed, though the recoveries will come from priority claims against the estate of Landsbanki.
This continues the trend of slicing and dicing the company, giving priority claims to select creditors before the company ever thinks about filing for bankruptcy, and sometimes even when bankruptcy is already looming.
On Monday, LBI, the group managing Landsbanki's estate, said in a statement it had reimbursed all of the "priority" claims, meaning those of the British government and the funds that acquired LBI's debt to the Dutch central bank.
In the early nineteen-hundreds, people in other river states, where settlement was still thin, worried that California was growing so quickly that its farmers and municipal water systems would establish priority claims to virtually all the water in the river — even though the Colorado doesn't actually flow through California but forms its border with Arizona.
