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Sentence count:172+5Posted:2017-02-27Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: antecedenceantecedencyanteriorityprecedencyprecessionprioritySimilar words: precedentunprecedentedprecederecedeantecedentprecedingcredencepreponderance of evidenceMeaning: [prɪ'sɪːdns /'presɪdəns]  n. 1. status established in order of importance or urgency 2. preceding in time 3. the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony). 
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31. Males were above females and age took precedence over youth.
32. Do we want legal and financial concerns to take precedence in the selection of resources for preservation?
33. But more important, and certainly more divisive, than such occasions was the endlessly controversial and emotionally potent question of precedence.
34. In these positions, qualities such as energy level, telephone voice, and sales ability take precedence over educational attainment.
35. The moral is that the need to clearly communicate findings must always take precedence over considerations of technical adequacy.
36. This would have involved giving the criterion of gender identity precedence over physiological criteria.
37. If the total resources are insufficient to meet all needs then how does one choose the needs that should take precedence?
38. Where the foot passenger steps on to the limits before the vehicle reaches them, the driver must accord precedence.
39. California law allows residents to carry the spray, and city officials said state law would take precedence.
40. The passive person does not allow their needs to take precedence over or be as valid as, another's.
41. This possibility of precedence confusion can be dealt with as follows.
42. This is because of his obsession with golf and how it takes precedence over everything else.
43. But their zeal as reporters often took precedence over their New Deal leanings.
44. The perceived need to ensure stability in society took precedence over fairness and justice.
45. Marxists, for example, assume that in the last instance economic variables take precedence over cultural, political variables.
46. If not, should precedence be given to new inputs or to the accumulated current state?
47. Ultimately, the democratic process may take precedence over democracy itself.
48. A decision obviously had to be made as to which of these missions should be given precedence.
49. Military orders, being the most lucrative contracts, took precedence over civilian projects.
50. However, where the two virtues conflicted, loyalty tended to take precedence over filial piety.
51. Most scientists are now persuaded that control of the exotic animals takes precedence over much other work.
52. The adoption contract might contain a proviso that if a natural son was born he would take precedence as the legal heir.
53. The modern obsession with transplantation takes precedence over finding the causes of organ disease.
54. This has usually meant giving precedence to private sector economic growth rather than other priorities such as social welfare.
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55. But for those most concerned, other issues have taken precedence.
56. Our desire to please them will take precedence over our own needs, and our self-possession will be compromised.
57. The practical effect is that that gives them precedence of speaking in Parliament.
58. A number of well-established general principles were accepted as regulating precedence.
59. As some observers noted, the new regulation establishes the principle that environmental concerns take precedence over commercial arguments.
60. This is the point at which non-academic come to take precedence over academic criteria. 4 educational qualifications are functionless.
More similar words: precedentunprecedentedprecederecedeantecedentprecedingcredencepreponderance of evidencesecedeconcedepreceptexperiencedcadenceevidenceincidencepresidencydecadenceresidenceimpudencecoincidenceprovidenceconfidencepretencepresencepreconceivepreferencein the presence ofindependencecedeaccede
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