Wherever they stayed, their jurisdiction superseded the standing power of dukes, counts, and advocates, and they could collect the profits of local justice and wield some control over it.
The new value superseded the long-standing figure of 20,320 feet (6,194 metres) that had been the official elevation since the early 1950s.
Affirmative actions such as the New Economic Policy and the National Development Policy which superseded it, were implemented to advance the standing of the bumiputera, consisting of Malays and the indigenous tribes who are considered the original inhabitants of Malaysia, over non-bumiputera such as Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians.
The cunningly laid out scene, in which the voyeur's eye moves from the sweaty couple to totems of family joy to another voyeur, the father standing in shadow, is a disturbing emblem of deceit that is hardly superseded by the revelation that, years later, the narrator sleeps with her sister's husband.
Washington was the unanimous selection of all electors, while Adams finished second, signaling that his standing as a leading member of the revolutionary generation was superseded only by that of Washington himself.
Because the growing patchwork of these deals have widely different rules, the simplicity and predictability of a single global trading system is being superseded by what Jagdish Bhagwati, an economist and a long-standing foe of regionalism, has called the "spaghetti bowl" of preferential deals.
Cash, frankly, has superseded class.
Business has superseded security concerns".
Harvey nickel-steel armour superseded earlier types.
But somehow the diplomatic part got superseded.
