Examples of use of primus inter pares
1. As long as this is so, the U.S., as primus inter pares, can still be looked up to as the defender of our freedoms.
2. Like any other 60–year–old, the United Nations must stay in shape and limit its diet in order to remain primus inter pares.
3. The cold fact, said a senior intelligence official who has recently worked closely with Hayden, is that CIA analysis "is no longer ‘ primus inter pares ,‘ " first among equals, as it had been.
4. Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, the primus inter pares of Shiite theologians, condemns tattarrus in its current sense as an "innovation" (bid‘aah) and calls on Iraqi Shiites not to embark on revenge killings against Sunni insurgents.