It's this general posture, more than any specific move, that will most help Obama reduce the drama, reassert his primacy and, not least of all, avoid repeating the worst mistakes of the Rumsfeld reign.
Even before getting the top job he was influential in formulating a new policy, sometimes called "Ulsterisation" and sometimes "police primacy", which sought to reduce the army's role and put the RUC in control of security policy.
Recent reviews have suggested a need for scientists, conservationists, and environmentalists to examine the primacy of the historical paradigm that invasive species will reduce the biodiversity of natural ecosystems [4], [11].
But he says the FIDO Alliance and similar efforts to reduce passwords' primacy are as inevitable as they are desirable.
It was placed at the far end of the scale to reduce primacy effects (as analysis of qualitative interviews indicated this would be selected more frequently).
This led to strong advocacy for the primacy of the nature of the organism in evolutionary explanations at a time when standard evolutionary biology had reduced the nature of the organism to "random variation" (Brooks in press).
The eurozone's biggest player and payer wants a deal that does not involve increasing its €211bn (£185bn) contribution to the European Financial Stability Facility's €780bn guarantees, does impose writedowns of at least 50% on private creditors to Greece and does not give an over-preponderant role to the ECB's limitless funds for fear of stoking up inflation and reducing politicians' primacy.
Studies by professors from Harvard, Columbia, University of Chicago, University of Maryland, Stanford, University of California, UC Berkeley, the University of London and the London School of Economics now provide a growing body of empirical evidence in favor of the primacy of reducing tax rates combined with spending constraint to stimulate economic activity and increase employment.
To reduce banking risk, Tunisian banks must revise the primacy accorded to traditional balance sheet intermediation and diversify their activities.
