Examples of superiority

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Colonial officials were incorrect, however, in believing that the vast majority of ex-servicemen had abandoned notions of elite status and superiority.
Figure 9.1 also highlights the superiority of the adaptive hprefinement strategy over a traditional adaptive h-refinement algorithm.
The student generally possesses a much larger share of real knowledge than his pandit, and he is fully conscious of his superiority.
Instead of subsets of diseased offspring, we studied subsets of offspring selected due to superiority for a quantitative trait.
Even so, however, such evolution can be traced even if such matters as advancement or superiority cannot be measured.
Name-calling is almost always derogaturn their words into symbols of unity and tory, asserting the superiority of one group pride.
Corona in both generations, with superiority increasing from 2.5 % in the first generation to 3.9 % in the second generation.
Non-hierarchical network relations as well as superiority and subordination and dependency are both relevant concepts in this context.
Cultural competency is an antidote to both cultural imperialism (alleging superiority of some cultures over others) and moral relativism (asserting no universal moral standard).
The varieties that gave high superiority were stable.
Language acquisition following hemi-decortication: linguistic superiority of the left over the right hemisphere.
The study reveals bilinguals' superiority on divergent thinking tasks that require the ability to simultaneously activate and process multiple unrelated concepts from distant categories.
Only the aurally presented orchestral commercial recordings occasionally challenged its superiority.
However, the superiority of the intervention group was again evident at the 2-year follow-up.
Furthermore, the feedback that children received after each trial did not dilute what appears to be a natural superiority of rime over phoneme segmentation.
The array of results requires us to examine the pattern closely to determine the conditions under which bilinguals express superiority.
Although many studies reported bilingual superiority in tasks assessing concept of word, there was no unconditional advantage for bilinguals on all tasks.
The superiority of horse transport over human portage seems clear.
Preliminary results demonstrate the agricultural superiority of this system in terms of productivity and longevity of production.
The key to the superiority of their method lies in paying careful attention to the asymptotic form of the trial function.
I shall argue for the superiority the constitution view as a metaphysical basis for resurrection.
The concept of distinguishing domestic and international politics comes from the superiority of the west and the mistrust of the outside world.
The only alternative, however, appears to be for him to go on the attack and argue for the superiority or truth of the liberal position.
Moreover, ' purity ' was not always a symbol of superiority, probably because ' lineage ' was not something that everybody possessed.
Relations of superiority and subordination had become so internalized that they appeared natural and were taken for granted.
Even more fundamental to his argument is the painter's power over his audience, the crux of his representational superiority over the lesser art of poetry.
Furthermore, the same problems exist for global superiority.
On this second interpretation, there is an important difference between superiority and weak superiority.
As we have seen, his crucial assumption is that superiority involves infinite betterness.
Only (1a) converges ; (1b) is ruled out as a superiority violation.
The aim of the research was to test the common implicit assumption of environmental superiority of the two alternative farming systems over the conventional system.
Superiority in language also appeared in children with sibs at least 5 years older.
The world becomes almost totally devoid of interactions among agents and over time the initial numerical superiority of the exploitive agents allows them to prevail.
In his view, no single tradition had superiority over others.
Hasidic women appeal to moral superiority in their socialization routines with children by investing communal hierarchies of authority with divine legitimacy.
Defeasible provability requires consideration of chains of reasoning for the complementary literal, and possible resolution using the superiority relation.
The superiority relation among rules is used to define priorities among rules, that is, where one rule may override the conclusion of another rule.
Observation 3 shows that weak superiority cannot obtain between the extrema of a finite sequence without setting in at some point in that sequence.
Note that weak superiority entails minimal superiority, but not vice versa.
At least, it is incorrect in all domains in which weak superiority does not collapse into superiority.
Thus, under these circumstances, not even superiority is a sign of a radical difference.
None of them, indeed, can rival, equate, or claim superiority over their ideal form.
Experimental results show the superiority of the proposed method in achieving high system bandwidth and tracking accuracy.
Hospitals are judged on their technological superiority by clients who believe that the more sophisticated the equipment, the better the care (17).
He was permitted to make a contribution to the hagiography of a genius by inscribing the superiority into the materiality of the skull.
Controlled studies and experiments need to be set up to test the superiority of disease management over fragmented health care delivery.
The first served the interests of the rulers, whose mastery of the traditional rhetorical arts provided public proof of their superiority and right to rule.
Page eloquently extolls the virtues of localist representations and their presumed superiority over distributed representations in connectionist networks.
The loss of numerical superiority by protestants would result in the collapse of their statelet.
One of these beliefs may be racial superiority, but does not have to be.
There was no essential superiority of men to women in this life, the writer suggested, and therefore would not be eternally.
Others have struggled to explain the loss of metalinguistic superiority over time compared to monolinguals.
Second, it promotes the superiority of the intellect and denigrates the manual, material and experiential.
The relatively high number of cases involving the working class partly reflected their numerical superiority in the congregations.
Science gave birth to military and industrial superiority, and eventually to social superiority.
The lesson to be learned is that it is unwise to too readily accept the apparent superiority of a horse-based transportation system.
Looking at these results, the differences appear to demonstrate an experimental group superiority in language proficiency after two years.
Although this analysis leaves little ground for claiming a bilingual superiority in an important developmental ability, it isolates nonetheless a formidable advantage in cognitive processing.
However, sometimes the superiority was not maintained in the long run, or was not evident for all measures.
Fundamental to both its difference and its inherent superiority, it seemed, was the principle of rationality.
In other words, it will make no difference to the word-superiority effect whether the mask is a word or a non-word.
We can make no general claim for" superiority" of either type of tax with regard to work incentives.
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