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Перевод: precedence

[существительное]
предшествование; старшинство; первенство; превосходство; более высокое положение

Тезаурус:

1. Sam takes precedence over both Carl and Dad, actually, in terms of influence.
2. Richard I of England allowed the use of crossbows during the crusade, but in England the famous longbow eventually took precedence.
3. The power of human reason must take precedence over all presumption of "truth".
4. Where spray bottles are more widely used and there is a risk of confusion colour coding is desirable and such a provision would take precedence over our control needs.
5. As a result of this case the UK is now obliged to change its legislation because Community law takes precedence over conflicting national law.
6. He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income; therefore it had to take precedence, but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived.
7. At double weddings, the elder sister takes precedence: Mr and Mrs Charles Brown their daughters Jennifer to Mr John Smith and Susan to Mr Peter White.
8. The legal profession is not always entirely blameless in these matters, for there is often left in the minds of interested people the suspicion that, in the courts of law the scoring of points and the winning of cases takes precedence over the desire to administer justice and establish truth.
9. Through the British, the Indian princes acquired armorial bearings, a strict order of precedence, salutes, and much other paraphernalia of an invented tradition.
10. In all professional considerations the interests of clients within their prescribed or legitimate requirements take precedence over all other interests.
11. In a large construction the silhouette of the ground floors, entrances, exits and more intimate areas can take precedence over the structure as a whole (see "Foveal and peripheral vision") and thus become its representative.
12. Henri II insisted that, as a reigning monarch, she must take precedence over his daughters.
13. Sometimes a theoretical framework prescribes that particular factors are considered causally prior to others; Marxists, for example, assume that in the last instance economic variables take precedence over cultural, political variables.