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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).
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