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    The kids really missed their daddy, and while the circumstance was completely different from that of Janice's childhood, the situation of a missing parent was still sadly reminiscent of work taking precedence over family.†  (source)
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    Theon's claim took precedence over those of his father's three brothers, but the woman had touched on a sore point nonetheless.†  (source)
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    When will a concern for the safety of our citizens take precedence over a concern for the business of the Port Authority's Newark Airport?†  (source)
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    Allowing the language of the people to take precedence over Latin was also a characteristic Renaissance feature.†  (source)
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    I do not believe that even the Table of Precedency which you will find in Whitaker's ALMANAC represents a final order of values, or that there is any sound reason to suppose that a Commander of the Bath will ultimately walk in to dinner behind a Master in Lunacy.†  (source)
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    The one great advantage which inexperience confers on the would-be mountaineer is that he is not bogged down by tradition or precedence.†  (source)
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    Accustomed to ease, and unequal to the struggles incident to an infant society, the affluent emigrant was barely enabled to maintain his own rank by the weight of his personal superiority and acquirements; but, the moment that his head was laid in the grave, his indolent and comparatively uneducated offspring were compelled to yield precedency to the more active energies of a class whose exertions had been stimulated by necessity.†  (source)
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    After a little politeness in the matter of precedence—" Apres vous, Monsieur"—" Mais non, apres vous"—they left the compartment.†  (source)
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    There were no ladies on board; the Major gave the pas of precedency to the civilian, so that he was the first dignitary at table, and treated by Captain Bragg and the officers of the Ramchunder with the respect which his rank warranted.†  (source)
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    Plender and Wilcox became joint grooms of the chambers, like "Blues" and Life Guards with equal precedence, Plender having as his particular province his Lordship's own apartments and Wilcox a sphere of influence in the public rooms; the senior footman was given a black coat and promoted butler, the nondescript Swiss, on arrival, was to have plain clothes and full valet's status; there was a general increase in wages to meet the new dignities, and all were content.†  (source)
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    A question it were now, whether of us three, Being all the known delicates of a rich man, In pleasing him, claim the precedency can?†  (source)
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    Ruby Gillis and Emma White, who had quarreled over a point of precedence in their platform seats, no longer sat at the same desk, and a promising friendship of three years was broken up.†  (source)
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    His Koran, being the most recent holy book, takes precedence over the Old and New Testaments.†  (source)
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