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

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 Holyoake, George Jacob

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.

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.

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