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 P. H. Kritzinger
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 Louis Creswicke
But Bonaparte would not tolerate the domination of the black conqueror, and despatched an expedition to San Domingo to overthrow his government and establish French paramountcy.
From Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Ernest Scott
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 George Jacob Holyoake
