A tax on carbon ― the policy proposed by Reagan-era economists and nominally supported by Big Oil ― remains the foremost idea on the table.
The mental click for me: a protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.
One celebrated "the youth of the revolution," a phrase that may, like Tahrir Square, suggest foremost an idea.
Europe, seen from Paris, is first and foremost a French idea.
But this argument papers over the fact that Napster, which coalesced every user's private music collection into a shared "celestial jukebox," was first and foremost a brilliant idea.
Religious liberty is first and foremost a theological idea, not a political strategy, and that some evangelicals, and especially some Baptists, would question its broadest application to all religions and non-religions is astonishing and distressing.
"John understood that America was first and foremost an idea, audacious and risky, organized around not tribe but ideals," said former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., speaking at a Baptist church here that included thousands of mourners and nearly a quarter of the Senate.
"John understood that America was first and foremost an idea, audacious and risky, organised around not tribe, but around ideals," he said.
Austin Clarkson, a foremost Wolpe authority, speaks.
Safety must be a foremost concern.
It contains first and foremost the idea of laws made and laid down by oneself, and, in virtue of this, laws that have decisive authority over oneself.
