Example sentences for: primacy

How can you use “primacy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "But some of the credit, at least, must go to Alan Greenspan, who has re-asserted the primacy of the US Federal Reserve, which he chairs, by pursuing a monetary policy of near-perfect calibration for the past decade."

  • Ellison believed firmly in the artist's detachment from politics and political engagement, in the primacy of aesthetics over the political and sociological dimensions of literature.

  • When Seleucid rulers outlawed Judaism, Jews led by Judah Maccabee and his brothers staged a revolution in 167 b.c. and, against all odds, restored the primacy of Jewish religious life in Jerusalem.

  • In a 1995 encyclical, John Paul II broached the possibility that, in the interests of Christian unity, he or his successors might "find a way of exercising the [papal] primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation."

  • It reminded us of the FBI's pre-9/11 emphasis on the primacy of its field offices.


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