Sentence examples for should have precedence from inspiring English sources

The plaintiffs are not arguing whether an older daughter should have precedence over her younger brother in the line of succession.

Surely, in the absence of a two-legged semi, the team with the best record – or the most tries – in that season's pool stages should have precedence?

"It is then a matter for you, Mr Speaker, to decide whether that should have precedence and it then gets referred to the committee on standards and privileges to take the matter further.

These respective cases cannot be salvaged, as it is not clear whether connectivity information or formal charge should have precedence such that this atom type can be modified in order to pass the PubChem valence list.

The statement also criticizes the doctrine for failing to recognize the will of God: God's will should have precedence over the will of man, including their desires for wealth, and Christians should "recognize the sovereignty of God".

If evidence of harms and benefits is available, as with the long-standing practice of data linkage in the Scandinavian countries, observable evidence of benefits should have precedence over theoretical considerations based on unproved assumptions.

Sometimes a count's nobility was better established and his fief greater than that of any marquis; sometimes a marquis with a royal patent should obviously have precedence.

Establishing order, and some semblance of an accountable government, he said, should have taken precedence over trying to build a democracy.

Louis Solomon, a lawyer for Andrx, has argued that a Korean company held a prior patent that should have taken precedence over AstraZeneca's.

"There are several irregularities, but a fundamental point is that a previous release order of habeus corpus was still in place, and my client was respecting its conditions, so it should have taken precedence over the second detainment order.

Perhaps these were the conversations and debates that should have taken precedence over the copyright and business model-protectionism.