High status importance owing to marked superiority.
1 And there's no guarantee or even likelihood that American preeminence will continue.
2 Some nationalists say the economic slump marks the end of American preeminence .
3 Among the head chiefs of the various tribes one again takes preeminence .
4 He it was whom God created first, let him take the preeminence .
5 It is not only amongst his fellow-countrymen that his preeminence is acknowledged.
6 An ideological schism with China threatened Soviet preeminence in the worldwide Communist movement.
7 Social preeminence in large cities rested almost entirely upon the ownership of land.
8 The nation is long accustomed to African American preeminence in entertainment and sports.
9 In general, size and a central position, which usually go together, determine preeminence .
10 You are a great scholar, sir; I dare not boast of any preeminence .
11 To the adverbs, however, must be given the preeminence among all human words.
12 Nor are these advantages and this preeminence due to our merits and deserts.
13 The intellectual preeminence of Mrs. Markham was equally, and no less ostentatiously, granted.
14 To win means Germany's commercial and military preeminence in this hemisphere.
15 Handel's triumph was now about to culminate in a serene and acknowledged preeminence .
16 To Thucydides, as an historian, the modern world also assigns a proud preeminence .
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