The battles were those of the Yalu (September 17 , 1894, the Yellow Sea (August 10 and 14, 1904), and Tsushima (May 27 29 , 1905, in which the gun regained primacy to such an extent that the Russian vice admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov could confidently write, "A good gun causes victory, armour only postpones defeat".
He promised to help the Venetian Navy, at the Arsenale, regain its primacy, by using physics to improve the placement of oars on the convict-rowed galleys.
The players in today's vinyl-record business, Brown included, have no illusions that vinyl will regain the primacy it enjoyed in the nineteen-seventies.
Interpublic executives have identified Lowe as a laggard that needs to regain its primacy if Interpublic is to complete its own ambitious turnaround after two years of financial, operational and accounting problems.
France lost Indochina, Suez and l'Algérie française and was obliged to watch as the heirs of Prussia-Germany regained economic primacy and rose to become America's "continental sword".
Credited with turning around Boeing's commercial aircraft division to the point where it has regained its primacy over Airbus after five years in the European planemaker's slipstream, Mr Mulally also earned $8.7m in stock options and was given compensation worth an extra $334,433, including relocation costs and $173,000 for required use of the corporate aircraft.
Since 1989, after 40 years of curbing urban development and under-investment in urban infrastructure, Havana is slowly regaining its primacy as Cuba's, and indeed one of the Caribbean's, major tourist destinations.
Today, as production jobs and revenue steadily drain away from L.A., New York is regaining the primacy in live television production that it once had at the dawn of the TV era.
Yes, that's right; print is regaining its regal primacy; e-books are dead.
More research is needed to test our supposition that people with long standing anorexia nervosa may be more motivated to engage in treatment where goals are modified from primacy of weight regain to improved quality of life.
Will he regain consciousness?
