Sample sentences for PRECEDENCE

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to be prior to something else in time, order or importance

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Ayn Rand

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
It's a claim that by the rules of this lodge takes precedence.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Valley of Fear
There was some hesitation among them, each offering the other precedence.
Shaw, George Bernard -- An Unsocial Socialist
...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals
It was of course amongst these that the most frequent disputes for precedence occurred.
Scott, Walter -- Ivanhoe
As a judge, weighing the evidence had taken precedence; but as a mother, it was not the facts that mattered-only the feelings.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
They tumble forth, competing for precedence and sometimes coming out so tangled I have to back up and pick up a different thread.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
"This takes precedence," Jacobi argued.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
Sorrow, which is to say violated memory, a crack in the armor of our individuality, takes precedence for us.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
When laws conflict with the Constitution, the Constitution takes precedence over the laws.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
The one great advantage which inexperience confers on the would-be mountaineer is that he is not bogged down by tradition or precedence.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
Guess who takes precedence?
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
His mission took precedence over any survivors, regardless of how inhumane that felt.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
A motion to adjourn is always in order, it takes precedence, and it cannot be debated.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
The back of the hall was a solid press of people, and scuffles broke out over precedence.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
Such men would not hesitate to invert the natural order of the conscience in order to give those virtues precedence before all others.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
They were examined in the previous order of precedence.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
But pikkuah nefesh takes precedence over that.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
Our own desires cannot take precedence over the needs of the Varden, but no, I do not want to part with you either.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr

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