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"This seems to have been foremost in the mind of the designers, while the collection came second," Mr. Beschaouch said.
It is not known which cities were important centres of production; but the Eastern capital, Constantinople, must have been foremost among them.
It may not have been foremost on President Bush's mind when he called for the creation of a volunteer civil defense service, but it's a fair question: why should America's pets get a free ride in the war on terror?
Those who have been foremost in the fight against Ebola in west Africa, especially Médecins Sans Frontières, have been calling for such a commitment by developed nations for weeks now.
It should have been foremost, especially on that in-like-a-lamb evening in March, a month or so after his stroll with Sarah, when Kromer improbably pried Renee and Luna loose from a dull celebration, held at a pub just a few blocks from his building (some underdog had passed his orals, on second attempt).
Bad luck and bad attitudes have been foremost among the factors that have led to seemingly the most gifted generation of Ivorian players losing the 2006 and 2012 Nations Cup finals on penalties and getting dumped out of the two tournaments between by opponents who turned out to be sharper and more balanced (Egypt in the 2008 semi-finals and Algeria in the 2010 quarter-finals).
An England player who had been foremost in the taunting challenged Cullis to ask a Frenchman for directions.
The question that had been foremost on the minds of fans — whether this would be the week Mickelson supplanted Tiger Woods atop the rankings where he has spent the past 501 weeks — had given way to another, admittedly hypothetical, question.
China is clearly worried that the Japanese and Korean positions on financial issues are taking away the initiative in regional cooperation from China, which has been foremost in pressing trade pacts.
Prominent among them was Boris Johnson, the popular if sometimes buffoonish Conservative mayor of London, who had been foremost among those protesting at the five days of mayhem that followed the May 6 general election.
