Whatever the reasons for the decline of Sarskoe, the similar sites at Timeryovo near Yaroslavl and Gnezdovo near Smolensk relinquished their administrative and economic primacy roughly in the same period.

Critics have called this undemocratic and a guarantee of the continuing economic primacy of whites.

It's sad to see Britons look at this mostly from a power perspective as in this comment: "Frau Merkel ... her real agenda of securing German economic primacy."

He began with a series of quesstions, recalling the days of American economic primacy.

Notable among these were a concern for more government attention to the welfare of children and worries over whether the United States can maintain its postwar economic primacy.

The Dutch economic primacy might be resented, but most Europeans preferred it to the English' and French'.

We used to regard Japan with worried fascination, as the destined usurper of American economic primacy.

The latter held economic and social primacy.

But the officials said the emerging battles for economic primacy among Western nations and multinational companies - and not military rivalries - offer by far the most promising prospects for the agency's future activities.

Restoring American economic primacy must start in the classroom, the Massachusetts Governor argued, and improving science education is a critical first step.