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

It cannot be claimed that, under the circumstances existing in South Africa, good will result from this tremendous struggle for existence and paramountcy between two white races.

From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel

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

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

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George

By this document Russia recognized Japan’s paramountcy over the bulk of China, while Japan recognized Russia’s special interests in China’s Western dependencies, Mongolia and Turkestan.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop