primacy

A series of breakthrough experiments on the visual cortex of the cat, by Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel, cemented the explanatory primacy of a mapping approach to brain function in sensory systems.

Both sides can point to some eye-popping statistics in America, the country which is perhaps ground-zero for shareholder primacy.

And while abolition of the air force is unlikely, the factions that believe in the primacy of boots on the ground are influential.

When bourbon went corporate, tradition and quality had begun to play second fiddle to the primacy of profit.

Now, its descendent organizations are dedicated to advancing the 20th-century throwback notion of the primacy of the nation-state.

McMahon attributes a relative decline in the cultural primacy of genius to two broad forces.

He informs us that, when listening to records, it is the beat he hears first, that it has primacy over the melody or lyrics.

He was a learned man, author of several literary productions, and was offered the primacy, which he declined.

Athelard, who succeeded Jaenbert in 790, had the primacy restored to him.

In the centuries that lie before us, the primacy of the world will lie with the English People.

The factors that strengthen these tendencies or connections are the frequency, recency, primacy, and vividness of experience.

Went to M. des Billiers: he attacked me again on the primacy of jurisdiction.