Sentence examples for Paramount from inspiring English sources

Our amendment secures this objective and provides an assurance to the public that compliance with the criminal law on abortion in Northern Ireland is paramount".

Mrs Merkel is now Europe's paramount chief.

IN JANUARY 1992 Deng Xiaoping, then China's paramount leader, arrived in Shenzhen for the start of his month-long "Southern tour".

He describes how Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader until the early 1990s, realised that the country could accelerate its development by learning from Western experts, such as the World Bank, how markets work rather than feeling its way by trial and error.

For Palestinians, Europe is their most reliable friend.America is of paramount importance to Israel's security.

"The paramount mission of the United States Secret Service – protecting the president and other high-ranking national officials – allows no tolerance for error," the panel wrote.

In Beijing, whose stability is paramount, drivers of the city's 67,000 licensed taxis have much to complain about even without having to fret about fuel.In this section Goodbye ...orau revoir?

"This tribunal has from the beginning been muddled by political objectives," says Philip Short, who wrote a biography of the late Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge's paramount leader.Many scholars of the Vietnam war blame the American bombing of eastern Cambodia for having driven much of the peasantry into the hands of the Khmer Rouge.

For America, however, preventing Iran from going nuclear is of paramount importance, and doing so peacefully depends in part on Japan supporting any sanctions regime.

Maintaining equal ethnic representation of Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs has been paramount to the peace-building process in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

The institute's chief executive, Ian Tudor, told Guardian Australia the confidentiality of student records was of "paramount importance to the institute, and given the magnitude of the breach of confidentiality we were obliged to report it to the police".