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 | If obedience to the Law takes precedence over human need then there is something wrong with the Law . |
| 3 | Be prepared , though , for a finale where breadth of utterance takes precedence over driving tensions . |
| 4 | It therefore takes precedence over national law : Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato v. Simmenthal S.p.A . |
| 5 | Yesterday Coun Dot Long , chairman of the recreation committee , said the ESC 's artistic integrity should take precedence over economic considerations . |
| 6 | ‘ On this occasion , the recreation committee considers the artistic integrity of the production should take precedence over economic considerations . ’ |
| 7 | Simply your inability to accept that your wishes do not always take precedence over other people 's ? |
| 8 | Any statutory rules will of course take precedence over contractual rules . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The semantic constraint may take precedence over acoustic information . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The biological fact of her femininity took precedence over serious critical evaluations of her work . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is presumably not Clinton 's intention , but illustrates short-term advantages taking precedence over long-term objectives . |
| 17 | Loyalty to leader or faction has generally taken precedence over original thought . |
| 18 | Psycho-history no doubt has its value , and can often provide valuable insights , but its major difficulty ( the opposite of the naturalistic problem ) is that by and large theoretical constructs take precedence over empirical evidence . |
| 19 | Statutory duties invariably take precedence over other aspects of the work and because of the publicity surrounding cases of child abuse , and the tendency to blame social workers when things go wrong , a disproportionate share of the energies and resources of SSDs is devoted to work with children . |
| 20 | Sometimes a theoretical framework prescribes that particular factors are considered causally prior to others ; Marxists , for example , assume that in the last instance economic variables take precedence over cultural , political variables . |
| 21 | As some observers noted , the new regulation establishes the principle that environmental concerns take precedence over commercial arguments . |
| 22 | In other policy areas , as noted previously , all EC policy rules take precedence over national policy , though DGIV is unlikely to get involved with competition in national domestic markets unless trade within the Community is potentially affected . |
| 23 | The essence of regulation is a conception that law is the means by which some notion of the public good is to take precedence over narrow economic interests . |
| 24 | However , where the two virtues conflicted , loyalty tended to take precedence over filial piety . |
| 25 | This is the point at which non-academic come to take precedence over academic criteria . |