Sentence examples for to assert primacy from inspiring English sources

Still, Mr. Xi has displayed a disturbing nationalist inclination as well as a willingness to back the military in its increasingly dangerous attempts to assert primacy in the South China and East China Seas over Japan and others.

Early in his career, Roland Barthes trotted out a vast semiological edifice in order to deride whatever he considered "bourgeois" (the equivalent of "thumbs down") and to assert primacy over literary creators he couldn't rival.

Coinciding with the new rule, Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose rhetoric has intensified as the euro zone's debt crisis has spread, delivered a fiery speech to the lower house of Parliament, the Bundestag, that combined a demand for governments to assert "primacy" over unruly markets with her gloomy predictions of what would happen if they failed.

As with many Orthodox leaders, he was especially critical of what he saw as the Vatican's efforts to assert primacy among the Christian churches of the Holy Land, even though Orthodox Christians have for centuries greatly outnumbered the region's Roman and Eastern Rite Catholics.

Once elected, his consecration was delayed for five years while he fought attempts by the Archbishop of Canterbury to assert primacy over York.

Thomas did not concern himself with the church state issues surrounding the Investiture Crisis, but he was tenacious in defending the independence of York against the efforts of Canterbury to assert primacy over the whole of England.

Foreign policy may be the medium through which the Indian government can most easily assert primacy.

And elsewhere he's back to noisily asserting primacy through fight chants.

So here Mr. Lamar was in Brooklyn — what better opportunity to assert his primacy than this?

This is not to assert the primacy of my own experience with the film.

Each seeks to assert his primacy in his father's affections, and also his self-sufficiency as an adult.