precedence

How To Use precedence In A Sentence

• There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• Getting things done properly took precedence over getting them done quickly.
• Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
• Today the Speaker stands in the order of social precedence immediately after the peerage, ranking higher than any other commoner.
• National defense must take precedence over all other questions.
• While the wealthy sportsman was the original English motorist, it was not until Edward VII took up motoring (with relish) that the motorcar began to gain precedence over the horse and carriage with the Marlborough House Set. The Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade
• The notion that theories take precedence over facts is now a truism of a postmodern, post-fact, true-spin/values world. Are We Finally Waking Up...or Merely Trading One Set of Illusions for Another?
• Should property rights be given precedence over human rights or society's need to protect nature?
• Does the President have an opinion on which statute takes precedence here in relation to the postmarking of the ballots? Press Briefing By Jake Siewert
• That flat stomach melts into soft library flab as library time takes precedence over exercise.