paramountcy
Example Sentences
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If it signs up to that, to the end of cover-ups, to clarity about the paramountcy of children’s protection, then change might finally be coming.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2019
We do not hesitate to say that since the capture of Gibraltar, the Empire has secured no such chance for consolidating her paramountcy in Europe.
From Aliens by William McFee
For the rest, the career of Joseph Chamberlain, like that of Joseph Cowen, has its explanation in the passion for paramountcy.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
Sea-strength and paramountcy might not wholly come to be measured in terms of thickness of the armour-plating—in calibre of the great guns.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone
British interests, British paramountcy, etc., were supposed to be seriously threatened by a great Pan-Africander conspiracy, which had for its objective the total elimination of the Imperial factor in South Africa.
From In the Shadow of Death by P. H. Kritzinger
