The most important thing de Montebello has done at the Met, according to de Montebello, is to restore the primacy of the curatorial function.
Now there is a move afoot to restore the primacy of this Renaissance city as the key destination for both fashion designers and buyers.
The Bush administration seems intent on flouting Congress's mandate to restore the primacy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in dealing with disasters.
His belligerence was a tactical error, because he was actually trying to restore the primacy of journalism to a BBC that had become entertainment-led.
Mrs. Merkel has talked repeatedly of the need to restore "the primacy of politics over the financial markets" to justify her support for a nearly $1 trillion reserve fund to stabilize the euro.
In the space of a single primetime address on Wednesday night, Barack Obama dealt a crippling blow to a creaking, 40-year old effort to restore legislative primacy to American warmaking - a far easier adversary to vanquish than the Islamic State.
Nor is it easy to understand what the prime minister, the home secretary and their advisers mean when they threaten to legislate to limit the judges' role in interpreting international human rights obligations or to "restore the primacy of parliament".
Bernard Jenkin, chairman of the Commons Public Administration Committee, added: "After all the statements made by the Prime Minister [and] the Foreign Secretary about being in Europe but not run by Europe, the pledge to restore the primacy of national parliaments, the pledge to get an opt-out from the charter of fundamental rights, to restore our borders..
The prime minister's Conservative conference speech, in which she indicated Britain would prioritise immigration control and restore the primacy of UK law to become an "independent, sovereign nation" without full access to the single market, drew a sharp response from continental capitals.
In this way, it could be possible to restore the primacy of engineering, physics and mathematics on design activity.
