Examples of supremacy

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Unfortunately the era of cooperation was doomed as these two historically contemporary superpowers became engrossed in an increasingly lengthy series of campaigns for supremacy.
The second expedition would attempt to redress their perceived loss of national honour and supremacy.
Once again, the standard reference to legislative supremacy is not helpful.
As we saw earlier, these new functions have helped preserve the supremacy of producer interests over consumer interests.
Power struggles took place within and among chiefly lineages for political supremacy, which carried with it control over revenues from taxes on agriculture and trade.
To gain economic advantage, to install military bases, and to gain world supremacy, he responds.
The wine poem reveals this through its reverse transaction, which cashes in the distinguishing marks of elite moral supremacy for instant gratification.
By 1930, the classificatory chaos had settled down, and the underlying ideology of white supremacy had been reasserted.
A second positive factor is the acceptance within the military hierarchy of the principle of civil supremacy.
Of course, catholics and protestants disagreed about the authority that the supremacy sought to confer on the king.
The new presidents, leaders of their political parties, took power affirming the supremacy of the party.
Sensuality and the principle of the supremacy of life, or, if the term be permitted, life-principle, are essential characteristics of folklore.
The title of the book holds good: it is the process of establishing supremacy that is being explored.
Proselytizers were ' emissaries of grace ', not workmen of the papal or the royal supremacy (p. 201).
Thus, the translation process can be compared to a battlefield where groups with competing and irreconcilable perceptions of reality vied for supremacy.
Much has been said about the historic supremacy of the male gaze and its dominance over our experience of art, literature, and theatre.
Parliament could revoke the charters of colonial rights whenever it wished to do so; that was what parliamentary supremacy meant.
The feeling of moral entitlement to pension money appears to have been intimately linked to the claim of the white state to political supremacy.
He joined issue with the contemporary saints of the other orders, and tried to demonstrate the supremacy of his order.
Catholics saw the supremacy giving the monarch jurisdiction over doctrine.
As a result of executive supremacy, other state actors lack effective checks on the president.
While local authorities were entrusted with more responsibility for public services, their autonomy was also restricted so as to secure supremacy of central government.
Her supremacy on the seas was beginning to be challenged.
The cause of white supremacy has been indicted.
More serious, white supremacy seemed everywhere under threat.
However, the means by which rulers maintained white supremacy in the political sphere remained effective.
There are certain symbols and regalia that in the context of histor y carr y a clear message of racial supremacy, hatred, persecution, and degradation of certain groups.
If the supremacy of the sign over the human body is signalled by the black flag of the last chapter, petrifaction is at its most sublime in the penultimate chapter.
As a consequence, archaeologists working in such places may find that the quest for historical victimhood is as significant to a community as the quest for historical supremacy.
The 1:2 ratios and 1:3 ratios can be used as alternative methods to assess the magnitude of the numerical supremacy of the top-ranked species in a community.
In each case, colonial forces succeeded relatively quickly in establishing military supremacy over the chief's territory, and in confiscating large numbers of cattle belonging to the rebellious chiefdom.
After 1607 virtually all those who recanted officially before a bishop were required to take the oath of allegiance (though not necessarily the oath of supremacy).
Thirdly, there is the question of the ability of political parties to establish themselves as practitioners of democracy as well as guarantors of civilian supremacy in politics.
Three, there is the question of the ability of political parties to establish themselves as practitioners of democracy as well as guarantors of civilian supremacy in politics.
Finally, as political scientists it is natural for us to emphasise that the translation process often should be regarded as a battle between competing interpretations vying for supremacy.
Significantly, the cultural hegemony of the great ranchers over the rest of the propertied classes acquired its most complete form precisely when its economic supremacy was already a memory.
The pursuit of supremacy by hegemonic states and\\or hegemonic groups within a state has all too often resulted in the creation of defiantly resistant diasporic states.
Therefore, under the present conditions, we hold air supremacy.
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