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

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

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

With the appearance of British paramountcy at the Cape came a hint of law and order, of progress and its accompaniment—taxation.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis