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
For the rest, the career of Joseph Chamberlain, like that of Joseph Cowen, has its explanation in the passion for paramountcy.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
What, indeed, but a surrender of the paramountcy of struggle for life, is Huxley's celebrated Romanes lecture in which he supplants the cosmic process by the ethical?
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
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 William McFee
Sentiment was foreign to Keith's character, and his justice that of those who subordinate the fates of the weak and shiftless to the needful paramountcy of the strong and well established.
From Five Tales by John Galsworthy
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