Priority

Examples

• It is still difficult to assign the honour of priority in the use of the simple expedient of printing for multiplying books. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Both houses are your home, my dear, said he, but the older Bleak House claims priority. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Furnace and Ashton, of Hull, to priority in building the first steam-vessel that was worked in England. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Like most all valuable inventions, Mr. Bessemer’s claim to priority for the invention was contested. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In such cases only one patent can be issued, and that to the inventor who on the taking of testimony shows priority in date of invention. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This claim to priority was supported by the publication of a description of the machine, and certificate of its use, in the _Union_, a newspaper published at Lexington, Va. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is that of PRIORITY Of time in the cause before the effect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Then, Hermione, assuming priority of speech, resumed as if wearily: 'To what does he want you to submit? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And so great was the activity and the number of inventors that he is a daring man who would now decide priority between them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Tyrants were distinguished from kings, who claimed some sort of right, some family priority, for example, to rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Priority was claimed by two firms of spectacle-makers in Middelburg, Holland, namely, Zacharias, miscal led Jansen, and Lippershey. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Priority is a poor recommendation in a husband if he has got no other. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Typist: Michael