Example sentences of "the primacy [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting that it was not the Committee 's objective to assert directly the primacy of English over classics , but instead to capture for their subject some of the cultural authority invested in classics for an altered social and educational purpose . |
| 2 | The influence of Plato , though difficult to exhume from the centuries of interpretation , seems to relate more to the ‘ process ’ and ‘ quality ’ of studies than to their ‘ object ’ or ‘ content ’ , though it is worth noting the paradigmatic nature of mathematics and the primacy of philosophy in his scheme of things . |
| 3 | Diligence at work then may have more to do with the consequences of non-cooperation than it does with internalizing the primacy of company interest . |
| 4 | A related point on which most ( but not all ) physical scientists ( or , more appropriately , natural philosophers ) of the seventeenth century would have agreed , was the primacy of mathematics in analysing the physical universe . |
| 5 | The thesis of the primacy of History , Levinas argues , forms part of the imperialism of the same . |
| 6 | Criticizing the orthodox Marxism which regarded dialectics as an external law validated by natural science , Lukács argued for the primacy of history over economics as the most significant element in the methodology of Marxism . |
| 7 | Today when the primacy of history above all else — the economic , even class conflict — is asserted within a Marxist discourse , together with an accompanying defence of humanism , it can usually be traced back to a Marxism of a Sartrean existentialist form . |
| 8 | His emphasis on the primacy of history means that he forms ‘ an almost mystical conception of it ’ . |
| 9 | This concrete universal unites universality and particularity and asserts the primacy of experience . |
| 10 | From Hegel he derives his basic manner of thinking , asserting the primacy of experience . |
| 11 | Alluding constantly to the primacy of sight yet revealing all the while the fugitive , chimeric nature of apprehension , the paintings remain firmly suspended in visual paradox . |
| 12 | Whilst Riley speaks specifically of the primacy of sight , her paintings constantly allude to states at the limits of meaning . |
| 13 | It saw itself as primarily a teaching institution and Lindop underlined that ‘ we are at pains to ensure that we recruit staff who share our view of the primacy of teaching ’ , and the Polytechnic was requiring new and inexperienced staff to attend an in-service training programme of about 250 hours in their first year . |
| 14 | And the primacy of fantasy : as the inheritor of a religious impulse , ‘ modern ’ sexual desire seeks to universalize and naturalize itself . |
| 15 | Li 's report reiterated the commitment to economic reform and opening up , and advocated freeing the majority of prices , while maintaining the primacy of state ownership and the " socialist planned commodity economy " [ see also p. 37917 ] . |
| 16 | European comparisons do not support the primacy of industrialization and urbanization in the fall in fertility . |
| 17 | The Constitution stresses the primacy of Hindi which , written in Devanagari script , is the nation 's official language . |
| 18 | But there was an important difference , not only in the primacy of stress placed on the doctrine of non-resistance , but also in the fact that the concept of resistance upon breach of contract nowhere entered the language of Tory limited non-resistance . |
| 19 | Several fortuitously converging considerations have encouraged this faith in the primacy of egoism . |
| 20 | This is because government has never lost sight of the primacy of production , and has been able to avoid excessive borrowing to pay for it — in Cameroun because of the availability of oil , and in Kenya as a result of the low-key transfer of assets into African hands without any disruption in production . |
| 21 | Other commentators ( Hartung 1952 ; De Gré 1970 [ though written in 1941 ] ; Horowitz 1961 ) tended to the position we have already seen adhered to by Grunwald and Hinshaw ; that the sociology of knowledge was illegitimate when it refused to recognize the primacy of epistemology in dealing with validity and competition between knowledge systems . |
| 22 | Notions of excellence , of the primacy of scholarship , the victory of steady thought over wild opinion , the sense of generation building upon generation , all thus abandoned in the craven desire to please the student , entertain the student , keep the college in funds . |
| 23 | Using the work of social anthropologists and social psychologists to get closer to an understanding of the unique parts of Japanese culture , great play has been made of the primacy of group over individual interests . |
| 24 | It is this declaration which symbolises the primacy of cohesiveness over stability , and it arose , one must recall , not in response to the avowed enemies of Socialism , but to a loyal leadership which demonstrated the will and ability to deal with society on society 's terms . |
| 25 | Although a believer in raj paternalism , Havell 's aesthetically radical , anti-Renaissance , arts and crafts tenets , and his synthetic vision of architecture as unifying all the different traditional arts of India , helped undermine the primacy of salon art in India , hitherto identified as one of the triumphs of the raj westernization of the subcontinent . |
| 26 | The third decisive orientation is the widespread insistence upon the primacy of Scripture in theory and in practice . |
| 27 | Typically this has meant that economic policy has emphasised the primacy of industry over agriculture , investment over consumption and exports over imports . |
| 28 | Both this work and The Endless Short Story ( 1986 ) confirm Peter Currie 's general assertion that ‘ American postmodernism may be seen to endorse a rhetorical view of life which begins with the primacy of language ’ ( in Bradbury and Ro 1987 : 64 ) . |
| 29 | Insisting on the primacy of language does not however answer the question how the skills of language-using should be taught . |
| 30 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |