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  • The primace of the Gaulls, pro-tonotorious, I yam as I yam, mitrogenerand in the free state on the air, is now aboil to blow a Gael warning.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • "_official de la primace_," _i.e. _, of the Archbishop, as Primate of

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • Let’s say that abortion was legal (as it was in colonial times), but that the right to privacy did not exist (e.g. no Griswold), with the primace being that whomever received a medical procedure was a matter of public record, with all of a particular procedure (e.g. abortion) published in a newspaper that was publicly available.

    Think Progress » Totenberg: Alito Will Move The Court “Dramatically To The Right” 2005

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