Preeminence

Organizations that sustain preeminence do so because they understand that being entrenched in their past successes is the surest path to future failure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The competition between these two nations for low-carbon preeminence is critical for the climate. ❋ Carl Pope (2010)

(Note that the adjective in Emma that vies with "every" for preeminence is "interesting.") ❋ Unknown (2000)

Constantine, the eldest of the Caesars, obtained, with a certain preeminence of rank, the possession of the new capital, which bore his own name and that of his father. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Boulez' own music, for what it's worth, didn't even win the battle for preeminence, which is to say the token programming spot. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2008)

* By adopting that posture, the president was, in effect, substituting a commitment to maintain American preeminence for the balance-of-power principle of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, not to mention the balance-of-superpower one of the cold war. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)

As the question over the long-term preeminence of the dollar remains widely open in this zero sum game, we expect a broadening of interest in a wider range of currencies, including commodity linked FX trades. " ❋ Unknown (2010)

But in biology their preeminence was the most startling. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)

It's simply impossible to be a carbon-based life form and have achieved the kind of preeminence Kanye insists he has. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It proceeded from the evil root of pride and ambition, the love of "preeminence" among the brethren; and this usurped power and authority led to a judicial process by which innocent brethren were 'cast out of the church.' ❋ Unknown (1913)

God [showed] his preeminence since the [beginning]. He can’t [fail]. ❋ Joedens The Goat (2022)