Sentence examples for foremost places from inspiring English sources

The rest were Jews...They fought and jostled for the foremost places at the gangways...When the Relief Committee passed by they hid their gold and fawned and whined, and, in broken English, asked for money for their train fare".

A century after it opened, the Green Mill, 4802 North Broadway in the North End (773) 878-5552, remains one of the city's foremost places to see Big Band ensembles and jazz combos.

The Azores are one of the world's foremost places for spotting these giants of the deep because of the islands' relative isolation and their position on the whale migratory route between America and Europe.

In the cases of foreign campuses, the assumption is that these institutions will have highest standards of quality and rigor that have enabled them, in their native lands, to become foremost places of learning and inquiry.

And the foremost place where many people wanted to go -- the water -- was off limits.

Buddhism was given "the foremost place," and Sinhalese again was recognized as the official language.

In the Roman circus games, chariot racing took foremost place, and chariotry became socially important.

It assures scholars that, in allotting to Isabella the foremost place among their rulers, Spaniards do not misjudge this remarkable woman.

It is the third city in Japan with a population of a little over a million but it is the nation's foremost place of interest with its castles, temples and gardens.

Though it would give the government sweeping powers to crush any secessionist movement and enshrine Buddhism in "the foremost place," the monks who protested at the gates of Parliament denounced it is a betrayal of the nation.

Supported by the king of Prussia, Frederick William III, he adopted for it principles that raised it to a foremost place among the universities of the world the most important principle being that no teacher or student need adhere to any particular creed or school of thought.