Sentence examples for Foremost among all from inspiring English sources

When I think about more recent efforts by the federal government to regulate and standardize higher education, I recall, from Little Dorrit, Dickens prescient description of the Circumlocution Office, the "most important Department under Government," whose great accomplishment is to be foremost among all government departments in practicing the great art of "HOW NOT TO DO IT".

Beauty is first and foremost among all aesthetic values.

What's more, Blackwater is foremost among all the big private-military contractors (PMCs) in the heart of the Bush administration.

They are the foremost among all the parameters to bring the right man at the right place.

Each Chola temple contained a sanctum closed to all but select priests, within which dwelt the primary, emblematic but nonfigurative image of the god to whom the temple was dedicated -- usually either Shiva or Vishnu, foremost among the numerous Hindu gods, all of whom are representatives of a higher unseen being.

First and foremost, cease all non-impactful activities, particularly teaching.

First and foremost, not all mp3 players are created equal.

Foremost among Lutheran teachings is the insistence, shared with all Protestant traditions, that the Bible is the sole source of religious authority.

Foremost among these is potential selection bias, since not all studies included were surveys of the general population (or proxies thereof, such as prospective blood donors).

Many of the leading political figures were men of serious intellectual interests and literary achievement; foremost among them were Cicero, Caesar, Cato, Pompey, and Varro, all of them senators.

"The table for us is a one-way passage to fulfil all the demands of the revolutionaries, foremost among them stripping the murderer of his powers," he said after the vote.