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

But it is this very paramountcy which the extremists deny to Great Britain.

From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)

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)

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