The latter two symbolizes the waning of American public and private technological pre-eminence, respectively.
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He is optimistic that USP's growing pre-eminence could show the way for the entire region.
Some, George W. Bush among them, argue that the best strategy is sheer military pre-eminence.
The distinctive feature of the City cluster is the pre-eminence of foreign financial firms.
It remains decades away from being able to mount a credible military challenge to American pre-eminence.
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Some have used reprehensible tactics, though America's conventional pre-eminence may itself encourage adversaries to fight dirty.
They see Delaware's pre-eminence in company registrations as the outcome of a race to the regulatory bottom.
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The Sunnis' fall from pre-eminence since Saddam's downfall has been traumatic, and their anger fuels the insurgency.
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How early is a function of two things: the pre-eminence of George W. and the electoral calendar.
But one way and another, the chancellor has steadily, albeit unstridently, asserted Germany's pre-eminence in the European Union.
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Some friction with post-communist Russia was inevitable, if only because of Russian resentment of America's new geopolitical pre-eminence.
The National Security Council's pre-eminence is not necessarily a problem, but it does reflect the president's domestic bias.
When they agree, as with USP's regional pre-eminence, it is worth taking note.
But for the judiciary to earn--and sustain--that pre-eminence, it needs to exercise restraint.
Despite his pre-eminence as a conductor, Toscanini was not infallible on musical matters.
There is a more nuanced, even insidious, argument for Hitler's pre-eminence: that good and evil are dependent on one another.
But Eurosceptics have raised concerns that European Union institutions could be used to undermine the City of London's pre-eminence in finance.
Japan has perhaps been alarmed at its own relative economic decline and is fearful of China's growing pre-eminence in the region.
And each continues to find inventive ways to keep our interest and our belief in their pre-eminence as category change-agents, and leaders.
But the qat tree is the mainstay of the country's economy and the downfall of anyone foolish enough to question its pre-eminence.
Its commercial pre-eminence was then undermined by two critical events which both fostered resentment and led to a decline in Catalonia's influence.
As artists train, paint and sell in more and more different cities, the pre-eminence of New York and Los Angeles is bound to decline.
Nobody opposes it for fear of the dollar losing its pre-eminence.
Lagos, Nigeria - Extremely wealthy folks often have to deal with a major predicament: How to subtly demonstrate their pre-eminence and superiority over the merely rich.
And France, nervous about being left out in the cold, has begun searching for alternative allies to help it keep its threatened diplomatic pre-eminence in Europe.
The pre-eminence of the City as a financial centre and of English as the language of world business are also both vital in pulling in foreign workers.
America, by contrast, will inevitably balk at surrendering its pre-eminence.
The political establishment's aversion to the SD is understandable given the historical pre-eminence of the Social Democrats, who have been in government in Sweden for 65 of the past 78 years.
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Anti-Asian feelings and resentments, especially over their perceived economic successes and commercial pre-eminence, were fuelled in the 1970s when 80, 000 people of Asian heritage were expelled by Idi Amin in neighbouring Uganda.
That currency could, it is argued, help to knit the region's economies together in the same way as Central America is said to have been steadied by the pre-eminence of the dollar.
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