Example sentences of "take precedence over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of this case the UK is now obliged to change its legislation because Community law takes precedence over conflicting national law . |
| 2 | Perhaps not in the sense of de Maria or Ericson and Ziegler but surely so in the sense that the idea of it often takes precedence over all other of its aspects . |
| 3 | SHAK LO MUN GRAM When the urge to continue sleeping takes precedence over all things |
| 4 | If obedience to the Law takes precedence over human need then there is something wrong with the Law . |
| 5 | And as you must realise , that summons takes precedence over any other . ’ |
| 6 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 7 | This Community law is applied through the courts of the Member States , where it takes precedence over any national law ; Martin Howe again : |
| 8 | It takes precedence over any conflicting common law and is superior to the conventions of the Constitutions and to works of authority . |
| 9 | Be prepared , though , for a finale where breadth of utterance takes precedence over driving tensions . |
| 10 | It therefore takes precedence over national law : Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato v. Simmenthal S.p.A . |
| 11 | Yesterday Coun Dot Long , chairman of the recreation committee , said the ESC 's artistic integrity should take precedence over economic considerations . |
| 12 | ‘ On this occasion , the recreation committee considers the artistic integrity of the production should take precedence over economic considerations . ’ |
| 13 | The power of human reason must take precedence over all presumption of ‘ truth ’ . |
| 14 | Language in general is understood as communication and thought , command over which must " take precedence over all other branches of learning " . |
| 15 | Will he confirm that the primary role of the plan will take precedence over all other considerations ? |
| 16 | A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials . |
| 17 | Simply your inability to accept that your wishes do not always take precedence over other people 's ? |
| 18 | Any statutory rules will of course take precedence over contractual rules . |
| 19 | Mother did n't , could n't , will never understand why a sport should take precedence over sensible activities like , say , a nice coffee morning , or an afternoon in the House of Fraser or a kaluki evening ( that 's a nice card game , not to be confused with an unendurable evening of Japanese theatricals ) . |
| 20 | The semantic constraint may take precedence over acoustic information . |
| 21 | Sir Adrian attributes the moral decline largely to pressure brought about by a faster-pace world , particularly in the City where salary levels have become inflated beyond all recognition and where greed can easily take precedence over ethical practice . |
| 22 | Overall there are few general principles on whether one rule will take precedence over another . |
| 23 | This objective will take precedence over any external consideration . |
| 24 | There are times when items of special interest must take precedence over any schedule . |
| 25 | Undertakers rarely advertised , for theirs was — and remains — a trade where discretion took precedence over high-profile marketing and one would not see an undertaker publishing testimonials from satisfied customers . |
| 26 | Even as other abolitionists refused that logic they were unable to find any means of reasserting the vitality of the emancipation cause and of recovering an integrated antislavery culture such that loyalty to their identity as abolitionists took precedence over religious and political differences . |
| 27 | The biological fact of her femininity took precedence over serious critical evaluations of her work . |
| 28 | These categories reveal an intricate relationship between social rank and economic standing , so much so as to invite the conclusion that by this date , if not much earlier , it had come to be acknowledged that status was a function of source and level of income , subject to the proviso that land took precedence over personal property . |
| 29 | By the spring of 1993 at least nine republics or regions within the Russian Federation were insisting that their own laws took precedence over those of the Federation as a whole , and the Chechen republic had gone still further and declared itself a fully independent state . |
| 30 | It stated that Karelia 's constitution and laws took precedence over those of the Russian Federation and the Soviet Union , but that some of Karelia 's state powers were voluntarily delegated to Russia , of which it remained part . |