Example sentences for: primacy

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

  • Ptolemy (second century) was the first and boldest in a long succession of spin doctors for the primacy of human beings.

  • Thirty years ago, when John Kenneth Galbraith published The New Industrial State , he was sure he knew where the modern economy was going and was contemptuous of economists who clung to their old ideas about the primacy of markets.

  • They interpret the "next generation" strategy, Gates' assignment to it, and his adversarial references to AOL as a belated concession that AOL was right about the primacy of the Internet, Microsoft was wrong about the primacy of the PC, and Microsoft now has to play catch-up.

  • Even as we see him fighting to reduce governing to the most trivial micro-pandering, Morris asserts the primacy of principle.

  • "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."


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