supremacy

IPA: sʌprˈɛmʌsi

noun

  • The quality of being supreme.
  • Power over all others.
  • (in combination) The ideology that a specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
  • (in combination) A state of privilege for a specified group relative to other people in society.
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Examples of "supremacy" in Sentences

  • The supremacy lasted until the advent of the hero.
  • Hitton believed in the supremacy of the Scriptures.
  • The iconological program was the supremacy of the Papacy.
  • Article 7 provides for the supremacy of the constitution.
  • In the 5th and 6th centuries, the Franks gained the supremacy.
  • Humanism was crushed in the name of the illusory supremacy of caste.
  • If the struggle for commercial supremacy is profitable, continue it.
  • The battle ended the supremacy of the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea.
  • They were involved in internecine warfare seeking regional supremacy.
  • The defeated king would acknowledge the supremacy of the victorious king.
  • If the cost of air supremacy is not paid in dollars, it may be paid in blood.
  • Sagiitta is hot tempered and initially obsessed with the supremacy of the law.
  • The novel deals with the real Jason Bourne and his attempt to regain "supremacy".
  • A perpetual democratic supremacy is at risk because … they have a broad coalition?
  • In the Clerk's view, this supremacy is exercised, inter alia, through parliamentary committees.
  • I think your earlier focus on parliamentary versus judicial supremacy is (correct but) off themark.
  • Catholics will tell you that one of the proofs of Petrine and Papal supremacy is that Rome is the only patriarchate never to fall into heresy.
  • The corporatist mentality no longer even has the empirical support that buttressed Berle's confidence in the power and long-term supremacy of large corporations.
  • "The very realm where life strives to assert supremacy" is of course the realm of art, and its acts of asserting "supremacy" -- of affirming and extending the reach of experience itself -- constitute the most meaningful "truth" we can discover.
  • Air supremacy is what enables us to send an elaborate fleet of machinery caterwauling over a targeted nation, such as Afghanistan or Iraq: the orchestrating AWACS (“Airborne Warning and Control System,” the flying surveillance-and-command center); precision bombers; attack planes, helicopters, and drones; ground support; rescue choppers; and the great flying tankers that keep them all fueled.

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