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

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 Kritzinger, P. H.

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.

Even the sermon at first sight seems at variance with his actions as a councillor—his repeated recourse to treachery ill consorting with the paramountcy of duty.

From The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by Archer, W. G.

Sentiment was foreign to Keith's character, and his justice that of those who subordinate the fates of the weak and shiftless to the needful paramountcy of the strong and well established.

From Five Tales by Galsworthy, John