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If it signs up to that, to the end of cover-ups, to clarity about the paramountcy of children’s protection, then change might finally be coming.

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2019

British interests, British paramountcy, etc., were supposed to be seriously threatened by a great Pan-Africander conspiracy, which had for its objective the total elimination of the Imperial factor in South Africa.

From In the Shadow of Death by Kritzinger, P. H.

Sentiment was foreign to Keith's character, and his justice that of those who subordinate the fates of the weak and shiftless to the needful paramountcy of the strong and well established.

From Five Tales by Galsworthy, John

By this document Russia recognized Japan’s paramountcy over the bulk of China, while Japan recognized Russia’s special interests in China’s Western dependencies, Mongolia and Turkestan.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop

Here the Arsacide princes had permitted the local tribes to rule, for these tribes were probably from the first almost independent and only acknowledged their paramountcy and paid tribute.

From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by Nariman, G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro)