Sentence examples for the first primacy from inspiring English sources

One can remember the first (primacy effect) and the last items best.

There can be primacy and recency effects in category order, whereby respondents in face-to-face interviews tend to choose the first category (primacy), and telephone interview respondents choose the last category (most recent) [ 6].

However, there is evidence that people tend to, for example, remember information presented to them first (primacy effect) or last (recency effect) [ 22- 24].

The second idea the primacy of the sentential has its roots in the thought that the fundamental uses of a term are in assertion and argument: if we understand the use of a defined term in assertion and argument then we fully grasp the term.

The first questions the primacy of population genetics.

The first insists on the primacy of French values [against multiculturalism].

The first approach "recognises the primacy of objects in the real world" and attempts to spin them in a favourable or unfavourable direction.

PAGE D1 Obituaries LES CRANE, 74 The personable, cocky talk show host was the first to challenge the primacy of Johnny Carson on late night television -- and lose.

In Manchester, however, an enterprise is under way to assert the city's primacy: the first Manchester International Festival, a two-week symposium of new art and music which will take place this summer.

Les Crane, a provocative talk-show host who was the first to challenge the primacy of Johnny Carson on late-night television — and lose — died Sunday in Greenbrae, Calif., north of San Francisco.

As he put it in a speech exploring company ownership last year: "For the first time in history, shareholder primacy had been hardwired into companies' statutory purposes".