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DUBLIN — Ireland has positioned itself to become China's springboard into Europe, Irish government officials said on Monday at the conclusion of a three-day official visit by Xi Jinping, the vice president of China, who is expected to succeed Hu Jintao as its paramount leader next year.

Page A4 IRELAND'S PITCH TO CHINA Ireland has positioned itself to becomeBeijing's springboard into Europe, Irish government officials said at the conclusion of a three-day official visit by Xi Jinping, the vice president of China, who is expected to succeed Hu Jintao as its paramount leader next year.

"Mr. Prime Minister, in case you haven't noticed, there's a real difference between being president and vice president," he said, perhaps referring to the structure of Russia's leadership, in which Mr. Putin occupies the country's second-highest post but is widely viewed as its paramount leader.

Although the project was not actually completed until two centuries after Zhu's death, his influence was decisive in establishing the general outlines of the work as well as in making its paramount theme that of patriotism and loyalty to the throne.

His vision for loosening the grip of dogma marks a sharp contrast his predecessors, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who saw it as paramount.

The convenience of us parents is seen as paramount as opposed to the wellbeing of our children.

Survival is as paramount as speed, and competitors weave in walking, rest and "junk" miles, which are the four-letter words in most running circles.

Moreover, as Parsi points out, some don't consider Khamenei's statement on Saturday confirming the election result to be as paramount as generally believed because he did not ever mention Ahmadinejad by name.

Even the First Amendment, then, expressing the value of speech and publication in the terms of a right as paramount as any fundamental right can be, does not quite get to the point of an absolute guarantee.

FRC is, in the social conservative world, similar to the Human Right Campaign among LGBTQ groups: Its primary concern, which it sees as paramount to its mission, is access and power.

Among the philosophical disciplines transmitted to the Arabic and Islamic world from the Greeks, metaphysics was of paramount importance, as its pivotal role in the overall history of the transmission of Greek thought into Arabic makes evident.