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

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

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George

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

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

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