Primates

Have you called a Primates 'meeting next year to see whether Archbishops Akinola and Orombi, in particular, may turn up?

Final press conference at the Lambeth Conference 2008

To this order is given the name Primates, and our first and second question must be when and whence the Primates began.

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

He afterwards called them the "Primates" -- the "lords" of the animal world; he then also separated the lemur from the true ape, and rejected the sloth.

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

THE PRIMATES For such an increase in brain-body mass ratio, we must turn to that Order of mammals called Primates (pry-may'teez), usually referred to, in Anglicized pronunciation, as the primates (pry'mits).

The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

We remember that Rowan Williams didn't dare call another Primates Meeting until the little ducks were all in order.

BabyBlueOnline 2009

A 'Primates' Council 'which consists only of a self-selected group from among the Primates of the Communion will not pass the test of legitimacy for all in the Communion.

Archbishop responds to GAFCON statement 2008

Also, an excerpt from "Primates" has been posted at the Asimov's website.

8/16/06: Where does the time go when it's not around here 2006

As early as June 1821 a 'Peloponnesian Senate' was constituted and at once monopolized by the 'Primates', the propertied class that had been responsible for the communal taxes under the Romaic and Ottoman régimes and was allowed to control the communal government in return.

The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906

'Primates'; and if there were any animals more like men than they were like any of the apes, and yet different from men in important and constant particulars of their organization, we should rank them as members of the same Family, or of the same Genus, but as of distinct

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

From this period, up to the end of 1838, was the hard struggle between Milosh, seeking for absolute power, supported by the peasantry of Rudnik, his native district, and the "Primates," as the heads of the national party are called, seeking for a habeas-corpus act and a legislative assembly.

Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842