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

The secret vote also rests on a vast assumption—that of the universal paramountcy of conscience and honesty in electors—which paramountcy is as scarce as political heroism.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

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

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)

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