For example, economics is, first and foremost, the study of competition, but neoclassical economics focuses almost exclusively on one kind of competition price competition.
The pervasive mood was one of nerve-wracking tension, a reminder that the work itself is first and foremost a study of the moral corruption attendant on the abuse of power, and that it should never be treated or accepted as safe.
TM: First and foremost, study great painters!
It is widely regarded as one of the foremost modern studies of Lincoln's career.
In announcing the gift to Columbia, Lee C. Bollinger, the university's president, said he hoped that the center would be "the world's foremost facility for study of the brain and the mind".
In the 21st century the PMA was considered the foremost repository for the study of Eakins, Duchamp, and Strand.
The foremost dilemma with the study of electronic law is that it is difficult to confine its study to simple parameters.
In 1973, he founded the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H.— now among the country's foremost institutes for the study of intellectual property law.
During the almost one hundred years since that fortuitous purchase, The Bancroft Library has expanded in size and focus to become not only the foremost resource for the study of California and Western American history, but as well one of the greatest research libraries in the world-thanks to the imaginative, often risk-taking leadership of its four directors.
He was Rutherford's assistant director of research at the Cavendish Laboratory for over a decade at a time when it was one of the world's foremost centres for the study of physics, attracting students like John Cockcroft, Norman Feather, and Mark Oliphant.
