Sentence examples for religious primacy from inspiring English sources

Her revelations were taken as supreme, and with religious primacy came leadership of the house.

Fès reached its zenith as a centre of learning and commerce under the Marīnids in the mid-14th century and has kept its religious primacy through the ages.

"Judeo-Christian," one ought to add, is a very recent term, invented by Christians to insist on religious primacy in politics; the "Judeo" bit is there to ward off accusations of anti-Semitism.

The Iraq group would have been on defensible ground had it suggested that the U.S., far from protecting an infant democracy from reactionary thugs, had instead been drawn into a round-robin struggle for political power, religious primacy and oil wealth.

In particular, the religious primacy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in national affairs and discrimination against Roman Catholics and Muslims compounded the dissatisfaction of the non-Serb population with the Serb-dominated ruling groups that treated non-Serbs as second-class citizens.

As the nation's flag is folded by uniformed members and a uniformed general officer presides over the ceremony, is the Air Force prepared for the appearance of unconstitutional impropriety and fundamentalist religious supremacy and primacy that such a wretched scene entails when hate-filled speech, disguised as permissible religious "free expression", begins to malodorously fill the air?

Given that Tibet is recognised internationally as being under Chinese sovereignty and it is a common practice for secular states to assert their primacy over religious institutions, the crucial issue therefore is not the principle behind government interference, but the nature of it.

The primacy of religious and moral issues in the debate about provision of safe-abortion services is widely documented in the literature [ 7, 26, 32, 35- 37].

The fact that he stressed the primacy of Jewish religious tradition over Greek philosophy may have been more than mere lip service.

Easy enough as a priest or a male lawmaker to lean on religious or sentimental arguments about the primacy of the family; not so easy to be a woman living in poverty with ten-plus children.

For them, the preservation of political sovereignty took primacy over the preservation of religious unity, and toleration was recommended as a superior policy in a situation of religious plurality and strife.