The "foremost contenders" were asphyxiation by suffocation or poisoning, he said.
"It is foremost among the contenders" for his favorite role.
Hisham Matar (with his first novel, In The Kingdom of Men), Desai, and MJ Hyland (with her second novel Carry Me Down) sprang from almost nowhere to be strong contenders for the world's foremost literary award.
Andrew Balding is first and foremost a leading racehorse trainer with a prominent contender for flat racing's classics under his care; secondly, however, he's an ardent follower of Southampton FC.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey won re-election by a crushing margin on Tuesday, a victory that vaulted him to the front ranks of Republican presidential contenders and made him his party's foremost proponent of pragmatism over ideology.
In Rubio's answer, and what we heard echoed by his fellow presidential contenders, was that immigrants should all be thought of first and foremost as possible terrorists.
The six contenders Homo Britannicus (Penguin Allen Lane Chris Stringerr, professor at the Natural History Museum and one of Britain's foremost experts on human origins.
First and foremost, Mr Walker's win in Wisconsin likely vaults him to the top tier of Republican presidential contenders.
First and foremost: Really?
Children first and foremost.
