The mental click for me: a protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.
One celebrated "the youth of the revolution," a phrase that may, like Tahrir Square, suggest foremost an idea.
"John understood that America was first and foremost an idea, audacious and risky, organized around not tribe but ideals," said former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., speaking at a Baptist church here that included thousands of mourners and nearly a quarter of the Senate.
It contains first and foremost the idea of laws made and laid down by oneself, and, in virtue of this, laws that have decisive authority over oneself.
"John understood that America was first and foremost an idea, audacious and risky, organised around not tribe, but around ideals," he said.
Politics, says the Prime Minister, is 'first and foremost about ideas.
Science is a way of looking at the world and first and foremost testing ideas.
First and foremost is the idea that women are apparently more risk-averse.
Europe, seen from Paris, is first and foremost a French idea.
But this argument papers over the fact that Napster, which coalesced every user's private music collection into a shared "celestial jukebox," was first and foremost a brilliant idea.
