American Hegemony or American Primacy?

For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.

They do not believe that constitutional norms and representative democracy have primacy over values and legitimate popular grievances.

The national security agencies have continued to acquit themselves satisfactorily since UNAMSIL transferred security primacy to them last year.

This irrational primacy effect is independent of the primacy effect in memory in which the earlier items in a series leave a stronger memory trace.

All of these motivations critically challenge US global diplomatic primacy.

PARIS Negotiations over Iran s nuclear program have been stalled for more than three years. For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.

But German officials preferred to maintain national primacy and thus a confederational approach to Europe.

Based in the primacy of the Constitutional rules, all other norms should be non discriminatory.

Countries which have shaped a constructive, mutually supportive relationship between the public and private sectors have been more successful than those which have opted either for the primacy of the market or the predominance of the state.

The dollar and the pound then shared international primacy in the 1920 s and 1930 s.

Elsewhere, however, disregarding the primacy of politics in a transition to peace has had tragic consequences.

The primacy of the papacy a term Catholic theologians use when talking with their Protestant counterparts remains sacrosanct.

But the primacy given to advancing national interests has always precluded real concerted action, at least until now.

In a world of asymmetric threats, we should follow the US defense department s field manual in counterinsurgency, politics require primacy.

Governments bail out banks, rush to the aid of manufacturers, and claim primacy in averting national catastrophe and personal hardship.

As a result, the Palestinian community in the occupied territories was always subservient to the primacy of the Palestinian Diaspora.

This restatement of fundamental precepts restored Confucianism to a primacy in China and neighboring states that remained unchallenged for 700 years.

That means that if there are five cars waiting, you have to wait till they all go, then you go. It lacks the notion of alternating, or taking turns, and it's always on the minor road, allowing the major one to have primacy.

Russia s foreign and defense ministries have both asserted primacy in the BMD dialogue with the US, but with competing perspectives and priorities. Russia s diplomats have generally, but not always, adopted a harder line, while Rogozin has been pushing his own BMD agenda.

De Gaulle s firmness and rhetoric aided, it must be said, by the fumbling of the rebels established the primacy of the state.

Child custody, in case of divorce, will be entrusted to either one of the parents, giving primacy to the interests of the child.

In general, Obama has pursued a policy of nuclear balance in which steps towards disarmament are accompanied by measures to retain America s nuclear primacy.

Without the ECJ s doctrines of direct effect and primacy, and without national courts that are willing to enforce these doctrines in their own jurisdictions, the EU most likely would not have attained the level of integration that it has.

By strengthening democracy, popular participation and the primacy of law, his Government had given a prominent place to human rights and to the individual in society.

At the beginning of the crisis, in 2007 2008, the eurozone s fundamental flaws could have been corrected had Germany been willing to support a joint European crisis response. But German officials preferred to maintain national primacy and thus a confederational approach to Europe.

At first glance, it seems plausible. Indeed, traditional balance of power theory suggests that US primacy in power resources should be offset by a Sino Russian partnership.

NEW YORK Economists long ago put to rest the error that Adam Smith made when he argued that manufacturing should be given primacy in a country s economy.

Rapid economic growth in China and India means that both countries will give primacy to a stable flow of energy and therefore to placid relations with Russia.

The creation of the Council would accord human rights a more authoritative position, corresponding to the primacy of human rights in the Charter of the United Nations.

The creation of the Council would accord human rights a more authoritative position, corresponding to the primacy of human rights in the Charter of the United Nations.

Against this background, primacy seems like a more accurate description of a country s disproportionate (and measurable) share of all three kinds of power resources military, economic, and soft.

Underlining the primacy of political will, international cooperation and adequate funding at the national, regional and international levels for the successful implementation of the Durban Programme of Action,

Underlining the primacy of political will, international cooperation and adequate funding at the national, regional and international levels for the successful implementation of the Durban Programme of Action,

Underlining the primacy of political will, international cooperation and adequate funding at the national, regional and international levels for the successful implementation of the Durban Programme of Action,

Carson drew on scientific findings, but also voiced fundamental misgivings about consumer capitalism and a postmaterialistic belief in the primacy of the quality of life over economic growth.

To achieve this goal he sought to restore high culture to a position of primacy in Russian life, and to put mass media in its (politically) subservient place.

Underlining the primacy of political will, international cooperation and adequate funding at the national, regional and international levels for the successful implementation of the Durban Programme of Action,

The Code of the Child, which includes all international legal provisions dealing with the rights of children and gives primacy to the interest of the child, including girls.

Indeed, there has been an increasing awareness among nations that international society must embrace the value and the goal of establishing and maintaining the primacy of international law.

Peaceful resolution of these conflicts requires giving China a role in the decision making process, which implies that the US and China alike relinquish any desire for regional primacy.

It featured the theme National Human Rights Institutions and the primacy of the rule of law in countering terrorism , which was considered by the Forum's Advisory Council of Jurists.

Such sentiments result in the widespread implementation of national policies that have a tendency to restrict the economic and social rights (housing, education, health) of these communities and thus illustrate that the political primacy of security over the law brings about a decline in human rights.

But it is apparent that an increasingly assertive China is unwittingly reinforcing America s role in Asia, restoring US primacy as the implicit guarantor of security and stability in the region.

Unfortunately, however, the US led invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent invasion without UN authority of Iraq underscore the primacy of military solutions in the strategic thinking of affluent nations.