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

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 Bone, David W. (David William)

Here the Arsacide princes had permitted the local tribes to rule, for these tribes were probably from the first almost independent and only acknowledged their paramountcy and paid tribute.

From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by Nariman, G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro)

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 McFee, William

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.