This encapsulates their foremost fears: decline and loss of status, the rise of a non-white presence, strangers in our midst.
In an interview with the BBC's Today programme George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer and his party's foremost tactician, declined to accept the criticisms, insisting that the race was always going to be close and that the Conservatives mostly were being positive.
First and foremost, a steady decline in the prevalence of hypertension among cardiovascular patients after 2008 suggests that the economic collapse had a beneficial impact on that specific patient group; Icelanders suffering from hypertension were not admitted to the hospital because of cardiovascular diseases to the same extent as before.
First and foremost is marked Christian decline over the past decade.
Foremost is the significant decline in the natural rate of interest, or r* (r-star), over the past quarter-century to historically low levels".
Mr Scruton, one of Britain's foremost conservative philosophers, bemoans the decline of "our church".
The decline in the foremost Government gauge of workplace efficiency followed a 4.3percentt productivity increase the first three months of 1986, when automobile plants and other manufacturers built up large inventories.
So Mr. Feinberg has quietly hired one of the country's foremost scholars on torts — he declined to provide a name — to write a memorandum about the validity and value of proximity claims.
The German artist is the foremost practitioner of a medium in decline.
From time to time one hears that newspapers might be on the decline, because of the Internet first and foremost.
Most damaging has been the decline of U.S. moral authority, stemming first and foremost from the invasion and botched occupation of Iraq, but also from Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the renditions of terror suspects.
