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  • Jacobitism involved much more than a debate about the merits of a particular dynasty. Men and women were well aware that its success was almost certain to involved them in civil war. And the more politically educated knew that the Stuart Pretender was a pawn in a worldwide struggle for commercial and imperial primacy between Britain and France.

    War   Struggle   Men  
    Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.79, Yale University Press
  • The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

  • I think that women have a construction of their sexuality put on them from a very young age that says exclusivity is necessary to remain valuable, that if a dude screws somebody else it means that he doesn't love you, that he doesn't care about you. You don't have primacy in his life.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians.

  • If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

    Mean   Care   Medical  
    "A Culture of Liberty" by Jacob M. Appel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.
  • The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

  • Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

  • I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art

    Art   Ideas   Irony  
  • I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.

    J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.82, John Wiley & Sons
  • The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.

    Freedom   Giving   Action  
  • This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

    Mean   Males   Female  
  • A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

    Team   Boys   Ideas  
  • America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.

    Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.194, Basic Books
  • Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as the matrix from which life has emerged and on which life depends. Recovering this sense is essential to establishing the framework for mutually enhancing human-Earth relations for the flourishing of life on the planet.

    Life   Earth   Essentials  
    Thomas Berry (2010). “Evening Thoughts”, p.86, Counterpoint
  • My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.

    "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.
  • The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws.

    Order   Law   Giving  
    Russell Kirk (2014). “The Roots of American Order”, p.22, Open Road Media
  • I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

    Firsts   Drink   Pope  
    Letter to the Duke of Norfolk
  • Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service of others and which fosters lawfulness and the common good. When a person discovers God, the true treasure, he abandons a selfish lifestyle and seeks to share with others the charity which comes from God. He who becomes a friend of God, loves his brothers and sisters, commits himself to safeguarding their life and their health, and also to respecting the environment and nature.

    Brother   Selfish   Mean  
  • There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.

    Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com
  • The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks
  • The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

    Teaching   Mean   Church  
  • I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.

  • A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

    "Illness As Metaphor" by Susan Sontag, ch. 7 (pp. 55-56), 1978.
  • For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

    The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri
  • Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

    Address To The General Assembly Of The International Press Institute At Helsinki Wednesday, June 9, 1971.
  • The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.

  • Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening.

    Guitar   People   Focus  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.

    Mother   Daughter   Women  
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