Sentence examples for special primacy from inspiring English sources

It has no special primacy over other such terms and may not even be understood outside a handful of states in west central Africa.

But Crosley and Sittenfeld, homing in on women in their thirties and forties, give special primacy to embarrassment, both as a narrative constant and as a means of characterization.

The particular primacy she is assigned is also dubious.

From this perspective, humans have neither primacy nor even a special place in God's eyes.

The government's ethnic policies continued to be based on and justified by the two basic arguments Mahathir had applied in his Dilemma; the "historical" status of Malay primacy over Malaya, and the "special needs" of the Malays.

The Walker report says RUC special branch should have responsibility for handling agents, and primacy over detectives responsible for investigating crime.

The universe reflected by Psalm 148 is a harmonious order in which humans have no primacy even if they have their own special place.

Its role in keeping the peace, the prevention and detection of crime and upholding the rule of law has been distorted by the primacy given to the colla tion of intelligence by special branch.

It is obviously true that these dreadful attacks could have happened in the UK or the US, but the fact they happened in France imparts a special meaning - in part because the Republic insists on its primacy over religion.

Interpretations of the Zhuangzi tend to give primacy either to the skeptical passages or to the passages suggesting special access to the grain of things.

Surrey police previously apologised for not taking primacy of the case, instead handing it over to the military's special investigation branch.