That means, first and foremost, defining the relationship with his partner-in-power, Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's man of the moment and deputy first minister.It was, perhaps, an unfortunate start that Sinn Fein tried to hijack Mr Robinson's assumption of office to extract concessions on matters in dispute.
Steve Earle, one of Seeger's foremost disciples, once defined his job in a way that would make the master proud: "The original function of songwriting is to tell a story that might otherwise die".
"After a decade that was perhaps uniquely, and in many people's view, unfortunately, excessively defined foremost by force and our use of force, we are entering an era of American diplomatic engagement that is as broad and as deep as any at any time in our history," said Mr Kerry.
The observed relationship is defined foremost by the internal fluxes - highly connected between each other - but does not include the fluxes towards output metabolites.
Although they are our contemporaries, they are defined first and foremost by being either the descendants of slaveowners or the descendants of slaves.
Calling a family member "Uncle Poodle" may be acceptable to Alana Thompson and her family, but where I live I am defined first and foremost by my interests and personality rather than my sexuality.
We are still told by members of this "alliance" that it's racist to oppose Robert Mugabe, imperialist to applaud Tibetan protesters, that religion is the vanguard against Enlightenment liberalism, that people are defined first and foremost by their ethnicity and religion, and that if you strongly object to these positions, you can take the door marked "neocon defector".
Despite certain paranoia that Second Amendment advocates share over the president's supposedly restrictive approach to gun laws, Obama has been defined, first and foremost, by an unwillingness to engage the debate.
From HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and "True Blood" to Bravo's "Queer Eye" and "Real Housewives," entertainment brands, cable networks and multi-platform alike, are defined first and foremost by their signature, long-form hits - ones that reach and build buzz and devotion with a vast audience.
The present study centres on an anatomical entity, the dorsal pallium, defined first and foremost by a neurochemical property, the localization of GPT-expressing cells (GPT neuroblasts and neurons).
