Accordingly, both views of the Constitutional Court support the preeminence and precedence of the Convention.

I wrote unto the church but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

I wrote unto the church but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence.

And he is the head of the body, the church who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence.

And he is the head of the body, the church who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence.

The bad news is that, even under such auspicious conditions, the US, as a world power, will not relinquish its free hand policy or forget its strength and its claim to preeminence among nations.

China s leaders would be naïve and foolish to bank on their country s peaceful and quiet rise to global preeminence. At some point, America will awaken from its geopolitical slumber there are already signs that it has opened one eye.

This bid for regional preeminence will sooner or later bring Turkey into serious conflict with neighboring Iran. If Turkey prevails, Iran and the radicals in the region will be caught on the losing side of history and they know it.

But opposing Iran s nuclear ambitions directly has had the opposite effect so far. Iran s quest for nuclear weapons  with its boost to national pride and promise of regional preeminence  has played a critical unifying role, as well as a political and military one.

But opposing Iran s nuclear ambitions directly has had the opposite effect so far. Iran s quest for nuclear weapons with its boost to national pride and promise of regional preeminence has played a critical unifying role, as well as a political and military one.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts even one thing befalleth them as the one dieth, so dieth the other yea, they have all one breath so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast for all is vanity.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts even one thing befalleth them as the one dieth, so dieth the other yea, they have all one breath so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast for all is vanity.

Yet it would be a mistake to regard Latin America s broadening international relations as marking the end of US preeminence. Unlike in the bygone era of superpowers and captive nations, American influence can no longer be defined by the ability to install and depose leaders from the US embassy.

Abbas conducts himself in a business like manner, and he strongly believes in the rule of law and in the need for real civilian governance to assume preeminence in Palestinian politics. In this he also differs from Arafat, who believed that the revolutionary mindset must continue so as long as Palestinians lived under an illegal foreign occupation.

Many people in many countries interpreted a crisis that unambiguously began in the United States, but affected some other countries more harshly, as evidence of a fundamentally malign US plan. The Chinese search for a replacement of the US dollar by a synthetic reserve currency is driven by a political backlash against the perceived iniquities of US financial and economic preeminence.

Here, too, the Friedmans hopes have been disappointed. The end of American preeminence in education, the collapse of private sector unions, the emergence of a winner take all information age economy, and the return of Gilded Age style high finance have produced an extraordinarily unequal pre tax distribution of income, which will burden the next generation and make a mockery of equality of opportunity.

No other country has ever managed to assume such unchallenged riparian preeminence on a continent by controlling the headwaters of multiple international rivers and manipulating their cross border flows. China, the world s biggest dam builder with slightly more than half of the approximately 50,000 large dams on the planet is rapidly accumulating leverage against its neighbors by undertaking massive hydro engineering projects on transnational rivers.