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

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 Holyoake, George Jacob

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 McFee, William

Sea-strength and paramountcy might not wholly come to be measured in terms of thickness of the armour-plating—in calibre of the great guns.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

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 O'Harra, Edwin V.