Example sentences for: primacy

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

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

  • This tantalizing suggestion of a scaled-down papal office was seized on by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission this May in a report that suggested Anglicans should accept a circumscribed papal primacy as a "gift to be shared."

  • Pollsters speak of both the "primacy effect" and the "recency effect," meaning that the first and last choices are more likely to be chosen, particularly when there is a long list of possible answers.

  • But even as a "multiracial" category blurs the color line, it can reaffirm the primacy of whiteness.

  • Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's statements to the contrary--that the euro would threaten the primacy of "the king dollar."


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