In his study Beyond Phenomenology, Gavin Flood remarks for example that: "It is ritual structures and performed narratives which have primacy in the transmission of traditions through the generations and not any individual experience or state of consciousness" (1999, p. 107).
The early English church was racked with disagreement on doctrine, which was addressed by the Synod of Whitby in 664; some issues were resolved, but arguments between the archbishops of Canterbury and York as to which had primacy across Britain began shortly afterwards and continued throughout most of the medieval period.
Some of them share targets - several have an interest in drugs, for example - and then the problem is which agency has "primacy" and whether the others accept that and cooperate, or resent it and become obstructive.
Those at the meeting, according to the bureau, discussed how they could violently defeat the peace process and supplant the Palestinian Authority with Hamas, which has long opposed Yasir Arafat's primacy in the Palestinian world.
The arcane quarrels of the Orthodox world came into view when it was reported that a representative of the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate, which has a kind of "moral primacy" in global Orthodoxy, declined to participate fully on grounds that he was not given the place of honour which his institution deserved.
The next thesis is the primacy thesis, which has two aspects.
But, unless work is collectively devised, British theatre has always operated with a distinct pecking order in which the written word has primacy.
He coined the famous "national preference" for the primacy of local citizens, which has been followed by all other European rightwing parties.
He said the party was "very keen" to work with the government on the issue but added that other issues also needed resolving - to decide which chamber had "primacy": "We don't want gridlock, we don't want the House of Lords flexing their muscles more than they currently do".
