Precedence Sentence Examples

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  • The Mayor takes precedence over all except the Queen.

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  • We gave only limited thought to the upcoming session as our pre wedding trip and plans took precedence in our hectic schedule.

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  • The Social or matriarchal took precedence of the Local or patriarchal organization.

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  • He takes precedence, Primus inter pares, of all the members, and is recognized as the official head of the Church during his term of office.

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  • By rigid precedence the Brahmans occupy the first rank; they are numerous and influential, and with them may be classed the peculiar and important caste of Bhats, the keepers of secular tradition and of the genealogies.

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  • San Salvador, however, claims historical precedence as the landfall of Columbus on his memorable voyage.

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  • He never enjoyed the confidence of the court to which he was accredited, and frittered away his influence in disputes about precedence.

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  • The three classes take precedence next after the corresponding classes of the order of St Stephen.

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  • In 1805 the rank of "Grand Eagle " (now Grand Cross, or Grand Cordon) was instituted, taking precedence of the grand officers.

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  • The knights of the Annunziata have the title of "cousins of the king," and enjoy precedence over all the other officials of the state.

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  • It now takes precedence of the Order of St Alexander, which was founded by Prince Alexander in 1881, and reconstituted by Prince Ferdinand in 1888.

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  • The pre-eminence so handed on may be of any kind, from substantial political power to mere social respect and precedence.

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  • Had they been able to establish and to maintain any kind of privilege, even that of mere honorary precedence, they would exactly answer to continental nobility.

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  • Representatives are sent from each inferior to each superior meeting, but they have no precedence over others, and all Friends may attend any meeting and take part in any of which they are members.

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  • Knights of the Bath, although they were allowed precedence before knights bachelors, were merely knights bachelors who were knighted with more elaborate ceremonies than others and on certain great occasions.

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  • It consists of one class only, who take precedence immediately after the 4th class of the Royal Victorian Order.

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  • The best modern scholarship gives the precedence to the Hank's Book narrative, as it harmonizes better with well-established facts of Scandinavian history, and is besides a more plausible account.

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  • The legislative power of the empire also takes precedence of that of the separate states in the regulation of matters affecting freedom of migration (Freizugigkeit), domicile, settlement and the rights of German subjects generally, as well as in all that relates to banking, patents, protection of intellectual property, navigation of rivers and canals, civil and criminal legislation, judicial procedure, sanitary police, and control of the press and of associations.

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  • The south, if only as the abode of the sun, always had the precedence over the north in Egypt, and the west over the east.

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  • The great bulk of the Christian population belongs to the Orthodox Church, of which the oecumenical patriarch at Constantinople is the nominal head, having precedence over all other ecclesiastical dignitaries.

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  • It was formally agreed in cabinet meeting that" when brought together in society, all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office."Thus diplomatic grades were ignored in social precedence and foreign relations were seriously compromised by dinner-table complications.

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  • We have already seen that Mahomet himself prepared the way for this transference; Abu Bekr and Omar likewise helped it; the Emigrants were unanimous among themselves in thinking that the precedence and leadership belonged to them as of right.

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  • Three years later, he resolved even to give to him the precedence in the succession instead of Musa, yielding to the importunity of Khaizoran, the mother of the two princes, and to his own predilection.

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  • British dukes rank next to princes and princesses of the blood royal, the two archbishops of Canterbury and York, the lord Chancellor, etc., but beyond this precedence they have no special privileges which are not shared by peers of lower rank.

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  • The secretariat is under the charge of a government secretary who ranks next in precedence to the governor.

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  • But filial feeling and established custom secured a measure of kindly sympathy, shown by precedence yielded at public games, and by the almost invariable abstinence of the colony from a hostile share in wars in which the mother city was engaged.

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  • His business gradually increased, and having received a patent of precedence, he was on the 2nd of November 1872 called within the bar as a queen's counsel.

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  • Although the private life of the new archbishop appears to have been the reverse of exemplary he attempted to carry out some very necessary reforms in his new official capacity; he also continued the struggle for precedence, which had been carried on for many years between the archbishops of Canterbury and of York.

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  • A motion for an inquiry into the conduct of the war was skilfully evaded by obtaining precedence for the succession question (Queen Ulrica Leonora had lately died childless and King Frederick was old); and negotiations were thus opened with the new Russian empress, Elizabeth, who agreed to restore the greater part of Finland if her cousin, Adolphus Frederick of Holstein, were elected successor to the Swedish crown.

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  • Such time as the officials could spare from the main object of enriching themselves by extortion and corruption was given up to endless official and religious ceremonies and to petty disputes of etiquette and precedence.

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  • The precedence of the Caesars indeed, was always admitted by the Arsacids; and- Phraates IV soon entered into a state of dependency on Rome by sendinl (9 B.C.) four of his sons as hostages to Augustusa convenien method of obviating the danger threatened in their person without, the necessity of killing them.

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  • In 1782 he obtained a silk gown, and was so far cured of his early modesty that he declined accepting the king's counselship if precedence over him were given to his junior, Thomas (afterwards Lord) Erskine, though the latter was the son of a peer and a most accomplished orator.

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  • They may marry, but their wives as such enjoy no title or precedence.

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  • This estate, which was to take precedence of all the others, consisted of the Roman archbishop of Prague and of all the ecclesiastics who were endowed with landed estates.

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  • He takes precedence over all justices in and for the borough, and is entitled to take the chair at all meetings at which he is present by virtue of his office of mayor.

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  • The French protection of them, which dates from Louis XIV., is no longer operative but to French official representatives is still accorded a courteous precedence.

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  • The of the member for the nobles had precedence and voted first.

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  • So far as it has any such force in Europe, it may be said partly to be connected with Bonapartism, and to denote a popular but military dictatorship, partly to be connected with the federal idea, and to denote a precedence over other kings possessed by a ruler standing at the head of a composite state which may embrace kings among its members.

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  • In 1346 the town had to defend itself against the English, who again besieged it in 1433 The siege which it suffered in 1472 at the hands of the duke of Burgundy was rendered famous by the heroism of the women, under the leadership of Jeanne Hachette, whose memory is still celebrated by a procession on the 14th of October (the feast of Ste Angadreme), in which the women take precedence of the men.

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  • The excessive multiplication of the title has tended to deprive it of much social value in itself, and under the democratic constitution of Italy it confers neither power nor precedence.

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  • All orders of clergy, therefore, even the "doorkeeper," took precedence of him.

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  • In the 12th century the abbots of Fulda claimed precedence of the archbishop of Cologne.

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  • Of these the precedence was originally yielded to the abbot of Glastonbury, until in A.D.

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  • The abbot of Lokkum, who still carries a pastoral staff, takes precedence of all the clergy of Hanover, and is ex officio a member of the consistory of the kingdom.

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  • The old precedence was restored when Thomas, brother and heir of this baron, was summoned.

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  • A monastery was subsequently added, and around it the present town of St Albans gradually grew up. Pope Adrian IV., who was born in the neighbourhood, conferred on the abbot of St Alban's the right of precedence over his fellow abbots, a right hitherto attached to the abbey of Glastonbury.

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  • The right of precedence in consultation of the oracle (7rpoyavrEia) was transferred from Athens to Philip. While indignant Athenians were clamouring for the revocation of the peace, Demosthenes upheld it in his speech "On the Peace" in September.

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  • In the halls of the kings the position of each person's bed and seat, and the portion of meat which he was entitled to receive from the distributor, were regulated according to a rigid rule of precedence.

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  • In the course of events he soon became involved in quarrels with the intendant touching questions of precedence, and with the ecclesiastics, one or two of whom ventured to criticize his proceedings.

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  • A generation back the astrologer would not have been hidden behind a curtain, but have taken precedence of the doctor.

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  • Following the economic tendencies of the time he issued sumptuary laws and encouraged manufactures; while to suppress the rivalry among the towns he established an order of precedence for them.

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  • The trip from hospital to Ouray excluded any mention of the earlier happenings as Dean's health took precedence but now that wellness was established, it was open season.

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  • The intention to rotate between anthelmintic classes should not be allowed to take precedence over other more important decisions about selection of anthelmintic classes should not be allowed to take precedence over other more important decisions about selection of anthelmintics.

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  • There is no operator precedence and the algebra is right associative.

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  • The latter has higher precedence and is left associative.

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  • The context diff header takes precedence over an Index line.

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  • Operator precedence means some operator precedence means some operators are evaluated before others.

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  • This was an indication of the KingÕs view that defense of the entire realm now took precedence over local particularism, and regional tradition.

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  • In a shameful display of partisan politicking taking precedence over international security considerations, the US Senate failed to ratify the accord in 1999.

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  • The obsession with regaining popularity among European leaders seems to take precedence over any other considerations.

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  • You can use parentheses to override the normal precedence of operators.

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  • In 1539 he was accorded special precedence by statute.

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  • Italian horror cinema is in fact given precedence mainly by male fans.

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  • The numbering system used by the British army in order to determine precedence was first used in 1751.

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  • Why should a traditional route carry precedence over others and on what basis do you measure tradition?

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  • Sometimes described as " the previous question " or " next business " This motion takes precedence over every motion before the Assembly.

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  • There is no historical precedence for such a scenario.

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  • The symbols && and || also have equal precedence.

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  • Lines at the top have a lower operator precedence.

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  • But what isn't obvious is that import precedence is stronger than priority selection.

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  • A summary of the operator precedence is given on page 18.

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  • This was a lame way out of the difficulty, for the queen could only confer precedence within her own realms, whereas an act of parliament bestowing the title of prince consort would have made the prince's right to rank above all royal imperial highnesses quite clear, and would have left no room for such disputes as afterwards occurred when foreign princes chose to treat Prince Albert as having mere courtesy rank in his wife's kingdom.

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  • Other more general objects, such as the free navigation of international rivers and the regulation of the rights of precedence among diplomatists (see Diplomacy), were managed with much address.

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  • She was still by courtesy given the precedence, but that was all; the council in Trullo (692) even claimed to impose reforms on her.

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  • British dukes rank next to princes and princesses of the blood royal, the two archbishops of Canterbury and York, the lord Chancellor, &c., but beyond this precedence they have no special privileges which are not shared by peers of lower rank (see Peerage).

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  • The scale of social precedence as recognized by native public opinion is concisely reviewed (ib.) as revealing itself" in the facts that particular castes are supposed to be modern representatives of one or other of the original castes of the theoretical Hindu system; that Brahmans will take water from certain castes; that Brahmans of high standing will serve particular castes; that certain castes, though not served by the best Brahmans, have nevertheless got Brahmans of their own whose rank varies according to circumstances; that certain castes are not served by Brahmans at all but have priests of their own; that the status of certain castes has been raised by their taking to infant-marriage or abandoning the remarriage of widows; that the status of others has been modified by their pursuing some occupations in a special or peculiar way; that some can claim the services of the village barber, the village palanquin-bearer, the village midwife, &c., while others cannot; that some castes may not enter the courtyards of certain temples; that some castes are subject to special taboos, such as that they must not use the village well, or may draw water only with their own vessels, that they must live outside the village or in a separate quarter, that they must leave the road on the approach of a highcaste man and must call out to give warning of their approach."

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  • Thus the table of social precedence attached to the Cochin report shows that while a Nayar can pollute a man of a higher caste only by touching him, people of the Kammalan group, including masons, blacksmiths, carpenters and workers in leather, pollute at a distance of 24 ft., toddy-drawers at 36 ft., Pulayan or Cheruman cultivators at 48 ft., while in the case of the Paraiyan (Pariahs) who eat beef the range of pollution is no less than 64 ft."In this bewildering maze of social grades and class distinctions, the Brahman, as will have been seen, continues to hold the dominant position, being respected and even worshipped by all the others."

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  • Customizing the para template (or import precedence lesson) 32.

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  • For some parents, practicality takes precedence in the decision making process.

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  • For example, light and fresh notes are associated with the warmest times of the year, while sweet, spicy scents take precedence when temperatures drop.

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  • However, you will find that some items will come up that take precedence while others may be delayed due to unforeseen circumstances.

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  • I loved my children more than life, but my drinking took precedence.

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  • Whether for a picnic or beach party, school, or just because, a tee can often take precedence over a dress.

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  • This was even more so when pantyhose and tights took precedence over stockings as the legwear of choice.

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  • Parents should resist letting anger toward the assailant take precedence over attention to their child or adolescent.

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  • In situations in which a person has received moderate or critical burns, lifesaving measures take precedence over burn treatment, and emergency medical assistance must be called.

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  • Moreover, sales to certain individuals are given precedence.

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  • Although the requirements are not as stringent as for purchases of other homes, precedence is given to certain individuals based on economic situation and occupation.

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  • It's unlikely to go that far of course, but it helps you get the point about overall health taking precedence over any one niche vitamin therapy you may consider.

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  • Sons and grandsons can also use heirloom rings from their own family, if their significant other's family does not have a sentimental piece (the ring from the woman's family should take precedence).

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  • As with any shoe designed with comfort in mind, you may expect a few specific qualities to take precedence.

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  • But Izzie's own health issues took precedence as she began seeing Denny everywhere.

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  • Although she is a successful entrepreneur with her home business venture, Jeri never allows her business to take precedence over people -- often rescheduling her workday to help meet needs in the community or within her family.

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  • This is a very useful book, but it should be one of the last books you try to incorporate into your Atkins diet plan -- learning the basics of the diet should take precedence over supplementation.

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  • The economy took precedence as well as the resources of the administration, in particular because the economy would play such a large part in his 1994 re-election campaign.

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  • You hear pieces of Leia's recurring melody when she is describing the fragile memories she has of her mother and then Luke's Theme takes precedence as he reveals that not only is Darth Vader his father, but that Leia is his sister.

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  • Royal honors were attributed to the pope (Article 3), who was ftirther guaranteed the same precedence as that accorded to him by other Catholic sovereigns, and the right to maintain his Noble and Swiss guards.

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  • A grant of the precedence enjoyed by the bride's father being held illegal, her husband was in the same year created Viscount Stafford.

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  • The peer's children, in some cases his grandchildren, have titles and precedence, but they have no substantial privileges.

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  • The true, no less than the titular, prelates have their various ranks, differing as regards title, precedence, clothing and other insignia.

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  • The precedence claimed by Judah was challenged by the northern tribes even on the day of David's victorious return to his capital, and a rupture ensued, headed by Sheba, which but for the energy of Joab might have led to a second and more dangerous rebellion.

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  • Giustiniani explains that he had to make proposals to the cardinal before he broached them to Henry, lest Wolsey "should resent the precedence conceded to the king."

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  • Most significant is the precedence of the eruciform by the campodeiform type.

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  • Of such " Orders " Brisson had twenty-six and he gave pigeons and poultry precedence of the birds which are plunderers and scavengers.

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  • The king's advocate led the bar of his courts, and before the privy council took precedence of the attorney-general.

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  • Upon the next vacancy after the courts were thrown open, the crown altered the precedence and placed the queen's advocate after the attorneyand solicitor-general.

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  • In India he established a diocesan hierarchy, with seven archbishoprics, the archbishop of Goa taking precedence with the rank of patriarch.

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  • A bishop of York is mentioned, along with, and with precedence of, bishops of London and Lincoln (the last name is uncertain) as present at the council of Arles in 314.

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  • In the British empire the only recognized counts are those of Malta, who are given precedence with baronets of the United Kingdom.

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  • He claimed precedence over even princes of the blood, and one.

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  • Pyramids were erected for queens as well as for kings, and the position of the queens was little inferior to that of their consorts, though, so far as monumental representations go, they always yielded precedence to the latter.

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  • As to which of the first two methods of pronunciation had chronological precedence, the weight of opinion is that the ken came later than the go.

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  • Gates claimed precedence over Schuyler and, on failing to secure recognition, intrigued to bring about Schuyler's dismissal.

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  • Nothing now remains of the former French predominance in the Lebanon, except a certain influence exerted by the fact that the railway is French, and by the precedence in ecclesiastical functions still accorded by the Maronites to official representatives of France.

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  • Archbishops rank immediately after patriarchs and have the same precedence as primates.

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  • The archbishop of Canterbury takes precedence immediately after princes of the blood royal and over every peer of parliament, including the lord chancellor.

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  • The archbishop of York takes precedence over all subjects of the crown not of royal blood, but after the lord high chancellor of England.

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  • As Clarence was King Edward's third son, while John of Gaunt was his fourth, in ordinary course on the failure of the elder line the issue of Clarence should have taken precedence of that of Lancaster in the succession.

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  • In 1860 a new prince, owning allegiance to the Dutch, was set up. As in other native states in Celebes, succession to the throne in the female line has precedence over the male line.

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  • In this government, though the Schepenen retained a dignified precedence, all power was practically concentrated in the popularly elected Raad, even the estates of the see (Sticht) had "nothing to say in the city."

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  • By its provisions communications from the Government and the other House, and reports of commissions, had to take precedence of other business; further, the president could postpone to the end of the sitting formal motions, interpellations, emergency motions, and other obstructive measures.

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  • It was impracticable for him to receive the title of king consort; but the queen naturally desired that her husband should be placed by act of parliament in a position which would secure to him precedence, not only in England, but in foreign courts.

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  • Lord Melbourne sought to effect this by a clause introduced in a naturalization bill; but he found himself obliged to drop the clause, and to leave the queen to confer what precedence she pleased by letters-patent.

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  • He refused the title of first minister, but his elevation to the cardinalate in that year secured his precedence over the other ministers.

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  • She was, however, given precedence over Mary, her elder sister by sixteen years, and Mary never forgave the infant's offence.

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  • Geoffrey of Monmouth makes no mention of it, and the earliest record is that of Wace, much expanded by his translator, Layamon, who gives a picturesque detailed description of the fight for precedence which took place at Arthur's board on a certain Yuletide day, and the slaughter which ensued.

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  • This, too, is certain; the fight for precedence at Arthur's board may be paralleled by accounts of precisely similar quarrels in early Irish literature, e.g.

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  • Fellow-commoners, who have decreased in numbers in modern times, pay higher fees than the ordinary undergraduates or pensioners, and have certain advantages of precedence, including the right of dining at the fellows' table.

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  • The power loom, owing to the improvement in its mechanism, has gained a distinct precedence and materially increased its producing power.

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  • But this proof was rather insufficient, as indeed it was felt to be, and, in any case, nothing could be deduced from it save a kind of precedence in honour, which was never contested even by the Greeks.

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  • These, though more recent, have taken precedence of the former, the work of which they have, moreover, greatly relieved; they are indeed composed of the highest dignitaries of the church, the cardinals (q.v.), and are, as it were, subdivisions of the consistory, a council in which the whole of the Sacred College takes part.

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  • When the earl marshal alone presided, it was a court of honour deciding as to precedence, coats of arms, &c. This court sat for the last time in 1737.

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  • Sprengtporten had insulted the guards by giving precedence over them at a court-martial to some officers of his own dragoons.

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  • In modern times, however, by certain regulations, made in 1823, and repeated and enlarged in 1855, not only is it provided that the sovereign's permission by royal warrant shall be necessary for the reception by a British subject of any foreign order of knighthood, but further that such permission shall not authorize " the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining to a knight bachelor of the United Kingdom."

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  • It consists of the sovereign, chancellor, secretary and five classes - knights grand commanders, knights commanders, commanders and members of the fourth and fifth classes, the distinction between these last divisions lying in the badge and in the precedence enjoyed by the members.

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  • It was evidently the general excellence of this collection that gave the version of the Vinland story that it contained precedence, in the works of early investigators, over the Vinland story of Hank's Book.

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  • In the recording acts relating to real property, fractions of a day are of the utmost importance, and all deeds, mortgages and other instruments affecting the property, take precedence in the order in which they were filed for record.

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  • In Italy, where titles of nobility give no precedence at court, that of duke (duca) has lost nearly all even of its social significance owing to lavish creations by the popes and minor sovereigns, and to the fact that the title often passes by purchase with a particular estate.

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  • When there were eight Groot families, disputes began to arise as to precedence at annual feasts.

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