Sentence examples for republican primacy from inspiring English sources

With the same fervor devoted to tilling the land, Mr. Stegemann built a prairie machine that was an anomaly in the quilt-like weave of Republican primacy and tidy farm homesteads here in the northwest corner of Iowa.

The appearance came at a politically sensitive time for Mr. Rove, who was relieved of his policy portfolio at the White House in a staff reshuffling earlier this month and now faces the challenge of helping Republicans maintain their primacy in the midterm elections this fall.

On one side of the debate are those elected leaders, primarily Republicans, who preach the primacy of markets, especially representatives who hail from the rural states where G.M.'s foreign competitors now provide thousands of highly coveted, nonunion jobs.

Three Republican candidates — Mr. Huckabee, Mr. Romney and Mr. McCain — are fighting for primacy here and in the New Hampshire primary, which takes place on Jan . 8 five days after the Iowa caucuses on Thursday.

Mr. Pataki and Representative Benjamin A. Gilman, the senior New York Republican in Congress, have each claimed primacy on the appointments, while the White House has not said how it will resolve the situation.

But in the Obama years, when Republicans' base of power became more firmly rooted in Congress and, in their view, Barack Obama expanded the powers of the Presidency, Republicans became loud advocates of the primacy of the legislative branch.

After the separation of the communists, the Social Democracy yielded primacy to the Czech Agrarians, or Republicans, as the latter party was officially renamed.

So he wonders in 2000 why the same Republicans who in 1992 were loudly declaring the primacy of "parental authority" over their children — in an attempt to cast Hillary Clinton as a fanatic believer in children's rights — suddenly stampeded all over parental authority when the parent in question was the Cuban father of Elián González.

There are probably several reasons why Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each managed to raise more than $25 million during the first quarter of 2007, easily surpassing their Republican rivals: outrage over the war in Iraq, the new primacy of the Internet (Obama hauled in 50,000 donations online) and a shift at the highest brackets.

The moment highlighted the uncertainty at the top of the Republican field, with two former governors, Mr. Huckabee and Mr. Romney, battling for primacy in Iowa.

The oil and gas industry was alarmed by the grassroots insurgency and the state's Republican politicians struck back with a flurry of measures aimed at asserting the primacy of state control over local regulations.