paramountcy

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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

With the appearance of British paramountcy at the Cape came a hint of law and order, of progress and its accompaniment—taxation.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis

But it is this very paramountcy which the extremists deny to Great Britain.

From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)

What, indeed, but a surrender of the paramountcy of struggle for life, is Huxley's celebrated Romanes lecture in which he supplants the cosmic process by the ethical?

From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by O'Harra, Edwin V.

He would have tolerated their "gentility nonsense" if they would have acknowledged his paramountcy.

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George