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Preeminence in job security, limited work hours, paid leave, healthcare, family stability, community support, quality of life, and happiness all belong to other nations.
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Technology Preeminence Act. The act required federal agencies to transfer to the National Technical Information Service copies of federally funded research.
National Performance Review Report Chapter C ITY National Archives 1993
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And further, that to hold up the market as an unassailable in dicator of social and economic behaviour is to yield to it a,; 'Preeminence that verges into recklessness.
The Trade Union Outlook on Serious Concerns of the 1990s and Beyond 1990
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East Indies, was exalted to a height of Power and Preeminence that
John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961
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Preeminence; it is natural almost to all men to desire preeminence in any perfection, but especially religious, ii.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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Preeminence of former times unreasonable, v. 242, &c. Presbytery, v. 54.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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Heaven grant this Joy be lasting to me; and I appeal to you, that I invoke the same Powers, to give all, who shall value me so as to imitate me, the Preeminence above me.
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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All Superiority and Preeminence that one Man can have over another, may be reduced to the Notion of Quality, which, considered at large, is either that of Fortune, Body, or Mind.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Superiority, Preeminence or Authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, within this Realm.
Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688
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HealthTexas Provider Network was selected to receive the Preeminence Award for demonstrating improved care for extensive populations and across a very large organization.
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