Sentence examples for state supremacy from inspiring English sources

The southern Roman Catholic clergy were alienated by William's policy of state supremacy in ecclesiastical matters.

The term Erastian evidently came into use first in 1643 in England; Presbyterians used it as a term of abuse for those who urged state supremacy.

The principle of state supremacy was reinforced by introducing at the end of each main course of studies a state examination to be taken by pupils from both public and private schools.

This was followed in 1736 by edicts for the establishment of schools in certain provinces, in 1763 by Frederick II the Great's regulation asserting the principle of compulsory school attendance, and in 1794 by a codification of Prussian law recognizing the principle of state supremacy in education.

Fed Up! is essentially a manifesto for conservatives that favor state supremacy over the federal government and are looking for new ways to assert that authority through the Tenth Amendment.

In Part 2 of this series, I made the argument that the conservative majority on the Supreme Court would likely feel more comfortable striking down DOMA for its perversion of hundreds of years of state supremacy in marriage laws than it would striking down Prop 8 because it took rights away from citizens who already enjoyed them.

The idea that any state held supremacy over the entire Union he termed a "sophism".

The state's supremacy over the individual tended to become more firmly rooted.

Through her meticulous, colourful and often funny examination of several communities and how they have developed since the late 1980s, Pisani shows how Suharto's fall in 1998 also signalled the end of the state-sponsored supremacy of Javanese culture.

The goal of military campaigns normally was to humble the adversary without doing irreparable harm, for all three major Muslim states feared the supremacy of any one state, and a tripartite division of territory seemed more likely to ensure the continued independence of all.

The state's agricultural supremacy dates from 1947, when its farm production first exceeded that of any other state.