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How to use precedence in a sentence

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But almost as soon as he arrived in England, Philip was accorded precedence over Mary.
This order of precedence can be important if both teams are close to winning.
Today the Speaker stands in the order of social precedence immediately after the peerage, ranking higher than any other commoner.
Because we are specifying an option on the command line, we are certain the options will not be overridden as they take precedence.
I think the will of the people should have precedence over disputable interpretations of the court.
Once more, greed has been allowed to take precedence over any regard for health and beauty.
Succession to the throne passes to the direct and legitimate descendants of the prince, with male descendants taking precedence over female.
Either the people of this country decided the precedence accorded to the parties, or they did not.
Unfortunately, in inexpert hands inappropriate investigation often takes precedence.
The order of precedence among legal heirs is defined by the degree of proximity of kinship.
It was a war in which close air support and interdiction often took precedence over strategic attack.
Arguments about ceremonial precedence, like those affecting professional competence, were about power.
If a player can place a tile, they must do so in their turn, according to these precedence rules.
Ricoeur argues that this primitive desire for order, at least in its more developed forms, takes precedence over the desire for retribution.
If flight data is coming in from both the aircraft and the local air traffic control, which piece takes precedence?
For a glorious few minutes at Knock Airport on Friday evening, the humble bike took precedence over the big plane.
This is typical of our mainstream media, the glitterati's inanities invariably gain precedence over profound social and national issues.
His attachment to the vow of celibacy takes overriding precedence over everything else, including the public weal.
This new possibility took precedence over the offer he had been preparing to make the others.
However, on their last album before this, silence took precedence over noise.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Glagolitic letters had, however, the precedence of the Cyrillic alphabet, in respect to printing.
That it was used and admired by Dante and Petrarch, alone gives the sestina a royal precedence over all of the other forms.
It is to say that egoistic claims must take precedence of altruistic claims.
But it transpired that there was something preparatory to that, or at least that must take the precedence.
And that subduer of passions was surrounded by his principal counsellors in order of precedence.
In each grade and subgrade date of commission, appointment, or warrant determines the order of precedence.
What are the causes deciding the exportable articles of any nation, and their order of precedence in Export?
Meeting Casanova in the entry, he gave him precedence with mock politeness.
Less generally, the rhetorical or syntactical accent in the same way takes precedence of the metrical.
The remarkable group of the Trilobites had precedence in order of time of the nautiloid shell-fishes.
What families, either through their mass of individuals or their number of species, take precedence of the other phanerogams?
There is no other law of precedence, no other law of rank and position in God's kingdom.
Most significant is the precedence of the eruciform by the campodeiform type.
The tapir, then, in point of size takes precedence in the South-American fauna.
Its precedence over its rivals Vega and Capella, long in dispute, has been settled by the Harvard photometry.
In the code of polygynous etiquette, the first wife takes precedence over the others, and each wife has her own cooking utensils.
On one occasion, a dispute arose between two bants in connection with the question of precedence.
The place of honour was reserved for those crafts in which brainwork took precedence over manual work.
They had given C.B. the precedence over the civilian of twenty years' standing, but had been silent about their wives!
That the civil day has taken precedence of the solar day is shown by the recent legislation in regard to Summer Time.
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