inter pares

基本解釋

The head of the government is the Prime Minister, in Dutch Minister President or Premier, a primus inter pares who is usually also the leader of the largest party in the coalition.
在荷蘭，政府部長(zhǎng)、縂理、內(nèi)閣成員通常是組成政府的幾個(gè)最大的政黨的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人。

The expectation appears to be that, by so doing, Commerce will effectively enjoy primer inter pares status in future defense cooperation and similar negotiations.
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Unlike Mr D'Alema, whose own party is the coalition's biggest, Mr Amato has no personal base, so may try to cast himself as primus inter pares.
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It is a charge that resonates beyond romantics who recall the post-war golden age of cabinet government when Whitehall was a collection of ministerial baronies, each run by a big beast and overseen by a prime minister who was merely primus inter pares.
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