paramountcy

Example Sentences

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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

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 Galsworthy, John

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)

It cannot be claimed that, under the circumstances existing in South Africa, good will result from this tremendous struggle for existence and paramountcy between two white races.

From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel

Even the sermon at first sight seems at variance with his actions as a councillor—his repeated recourse to treachery ill consorting with the paramountcy of duty.

From The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by Archer, W. G.