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

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)

But Bonaparte would not tolerate the domination of the black conqueror, and despatched an expedition to San Domingo to overthrow his government and establish French paramountcy.

From Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Scott, Ernest

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)

He would have tolerated their "gentility nonsense" if they would have acknowledged his paramountcy.

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George