pre-eminence

Men are capable of a decided pre-eminence over women in many subjects, the average of mental power in man must be above that of woman.

I fancy his pre-eminence is due to his muscles of intuition being the strongest and most enduring with which a man has ever been gifted.

I certainly do not want to see Britain lose its pre-eminence in financial services, but a measure of rebalancing seems appropriate.

Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, said it was London's cultural pre-eminence that made it a great world city.

At the war's end, of course, the global pre-eminence of the United States was beyond question.

SUPER REVERSE RUBBER has the pre-eminence of being quick , sticky , able producting strong spins, and easy to control .

The Great American University: Its Rise to Pre-eminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected. By Jonathan R. Cole.

But there has been negative talk about him losing his pre-eminence amid London's restaurant scene.

It has floated the idea of an international currency to replace the dollar, a sign it regards the days of US pre-eminence as numbered.

In contrast, if China were in the dominant strategic position, its pre-eminence would be much harder to challenge or shift.

The view that the pound kept its pre-eminence long after Britain went into eclipse is, Eichengreen shows, an illusion.

They see Delaware's pre-eminence in company registrations as the outcome of a race to the regulatory bottom.

The hardcore continuum's claim to pre-eminence has always been that it's not just dance music.

China's rise as an economic powerhouse has seen it overtaking Japan and signals a return to its 18th century pre-eminence.

True greatness is the greatness of the mind; --the true glory of a nation is moral and intellectual pre-eminence.

There's nothing we see in the Arctic which suggests the pre-eminence of the oil resources of the Gulf states would be shifted.

America is not about to throw away its military pre-eminence, either by accident or design.

The dollar's global pre-eminence would be threatened, as would America's status as the world's financial centre.

But most Chinese see the country's first Olympics as a celebration of its rise from poverty and political chaos to global pre-eminence.

They argue that China needs to use its growing power and economic resources to carve out its own position of pre-eminence.

Speeches denouncing Russian shortcomings and gestures drawn from the Cold War struggle for pre-eminence have occurred frequently.

The dollar's pre-eminence, like sterling's before it, stems from a range of factors including deep capital markets and military power.

"This is a competition for pre-eminence and influence in Asia, " he said.

The latter two symbolized the waning of, respectively, American public and private technological pre-eminence.

These market leaders not only lost pre-eminence but ceased to be significant players in their industries.

So Americans are wrong to think their "pre-eminence is America's to lose" .

The 21st century will be the age of Asia's return to economic pre-eminence.

not the pre-eminence of art and science, but the pre-eminence of righteousness.

That symbolic battle will be replicated in Beijing as the US and China duel for sporting pre-eminence.

The idea of questioning the dollar's pre-eminence has received backing from other nations with agendas of their own.

Mr Hawke also praised UNSW's "pre-eminence" in Chinese studies and academic and research engagement with China.

As a result, the US needs the rest of the world to maintain its pre-eminence, not to dissolve it.

That is how America can maintain pre-eminence in the 21st century, regardless of the rise of China or any other nation.

Right now, the main country threatening the dollar's pre-eminence is the US.

Three things in 2010 will affect whether the City manages to retain its pre-eminence.

The latter was given an autonomy and even a pre-eminence as a philosophical issue.

And even French wine makers can no longer take their pre-eminence for granted.

London's pre-eminence in foreign exchange is such that it doesn't need endorsements.

The EU needs Germany's leadership more than ever, but fears its pre-eminence.

Iron ore's pre-eminence was unchanged from 2009, when it contributed $6. 2bn.

Have you been surprised by pre-eminence of Renault so far this season? Did you really expect to pick up where you left off racing last year?

ATPA American Technology Pre-Eminence Act of 1991