If Europe is to retain its economic pre-eminence, it must act urgently now to "lock-in" much greater science and technology-led business collaboration with China. ❋ Dirk Jan Van Den Berg (2010)
By contrast with his preceding stints in Milan, where he enjoyed unquestioned pre-eminence and produced the great paintings currently on view at London's National Gallery, Leonardo's time at the papal court was marked by competition from younger artists. ❋ Francis X. Rocca (2011)
Like a losing coach on "Friday Night Lights," he sets out to create a playbook for restoring the U.S. to economic pre-eminence, so that he might return to China a decade hence, find his Chinese nemesis, mention America's economy and, as he puts it, "extend my thumb, pointing upward." ❋ Alan Murray (2011)
For example, sensing potential atrophy in America's relationship with the Philippines and Thailand, China has offered aid, military assistance and economic incentives over the past few years in an attempt to convince elites in these countries that future Chinese regional leadership will be preferable to American pre-eminence in the longer term. ❋ John Lee (2010)
In case folks haven't noticed, this current gap-creating policy is far more than "unseemly", it is highly destructive to America's prestige in the face of Asian space pre-eminence. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There are other profound differences between the two longtime rivals who have been tussling over territory and pre-eminence since before the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453. ❋ Marc Champion (2011)
That's why there are so many long shots, to give pre-eminence to the actors' bodies and to give priority to the pacing and the movement so that no two scenes are alike. ❋ George Heymont (2012)
Call it mercantilism, call it the betrayal of the market, but the historical reality is this: Start-up incentives including the Interstate highway system, to mention just one trillion-dollar gift to oil are what brought on petroleum's pre-eminence. ❋ Jed Horne (2011)
The policy appears to be: hand US human space flight (along with our pre-eminence) over to the rest of the word for the next decade. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But the head winds facing Russia, and Mr. Putin's pre-eminence, are growing. ❋ Andrew Peaple (2011)
In Asia today, the source of America's strategic pre-eminence is not just the dominance of the Seventh Fleet but strong regional support for a continued U.S. presence. ❋ John Lee (2010)
Republican lawmakers including Leonard Lance of New Jersey, home to many device makers, stressed the role of medical-device manufacturers in the U.S. economy, saying that delays in product approvals threaten U.S. pre-eminence in the industry. ❋ Alicia Mundy (2011)
America will no longer dominate the economic neighborhood ... will no longer be able to display its military prowess in everyone else's neighborhood and just expect people to salute our pre-eminence. ❋ Steve McSwain (2011)
The intended endgame: to gradually increase the incentives for regional states to accept Chinese pre-eminence, and to increase the pressure on America to eventually cede leadership of Asia to China without military conflict. ❋ John Lee (2010)
Morgan Stanley snagged the coveted "lead-left" position on the filing with regulators, signaling its pre-eminence on the deal. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Thus does the world really cast off men's souls, and recognizing only their bodies, it makes it appear as if “that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts, even one things have all one breath, so that a man hath no pre-eminence over a beast, for all is vanity.” ... ❋ Unknown (2009)
In fact, Section Four can become a powerful hammer for the budget hawks if Congress simply reclaims its constitutional pre-eminence in the borrowing process. ❋ David B. Rivkin Jr. (2011)
China has long viewed American pre-eminence in the region as a historical accident and an aberration. ❋ John Lee (2010)
