Sentence examples for foremost cities from inspiring English sources
But when Bruce Springsteen opens the Leeds Arena on Wednesday night, the Boss will ignite a bitter battle for musical supremacy between Yorkshire's foremost cities.
In 1836 San Antonio was still the foremost city of Texas, with some 2,500 inhabitants.
The badly damaged town was displaced after 1640 by Brno as the foremost city of Moravia.
After the collapse of the Egyptian New Kingdom in the 11th century bc, Byblos became the foremost city of Phoenicia.
During the Parthian domination of the Tigris-Euphrates valley that began in the 2nd century bc, Seleucia continued to be the foremost city of the east in position and trade.
Beginning in the 19th century, industrialization, the extension of the Danish railway system, and the expansion of its harbour stimulated the city's growth to the point that Århus is now Jutland's foremost city and the second largest city in Denmark.
He would soon base the 1970 novel Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen in his fictionalised New Orleans, now renamed Moriarty ("the foremost city of the nation, a compound of refinement and squalor, grace and depravity"), where there were now beautifully named quarters of Cohn's own making – Jitney, Cicero and Savoy, "the wealthy St Jude and the shanty Canrush".
It is one of Shīʿite Islam's two foremost holy cities (the other is Karbalāʾ, also in Iraq) and is widely held to be the resting place of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Shīʿite Islam's most-revered figure whose tomb is located near the city's centre.
Ask anyone to name England's foremost musical cities and you'll probably be met with the same old answers.
Beethoven may have lived here for 35 years, but this is first and foremost the city of Mozart - an Austrian.
Bestowed upon Triskel as a new multipurpose venue, Christchurch has since come to be first and foremost the city's premier venue for independent and world cinema.
