It is not government's only obligation, in this view, but it is the paramount one.
The paramount one is this: can a people's revolution succeeed that is determinedly democratic, grassroots, inclusive and peaceable?
The paramount one for us today is this: can a people's revolution that is determinedly democratic, grass-roots, inclusive and peaceable succeed?
We dropped into the Paramount one morning last week, looking for a cool place to sit between a business appointment & a luncheon date in the neighborhood, & we aren't likely to forget it for a long time.
If the feelings of survivors were paramount, one would expect the opposite: Wagner would be permissible in live performance, because those who wished to avoid the composer would have advance warning, whereas he would be absent from broadcasts, which could fall on unwilling ears.
A strange appendix to a service where accuracy and responsibility are paramount, one is tempted to remark, but the sad truth is that numbers like this are only as strong as the weakest link in the chain, and in a bureaucracy (and all governments are bureaucracies to some extent) there are many, many links.
A final factor in defining public sector funding levels, and certainly the paramount one for private sector funding, is whether there is a potential to not only gain an enhanced understanding of the disease but also to translate that into effective therapies.
Many prosopagnosics recognize people by voice, posture, or gait; and, of course, context and expectation are paramount — one expects to see one's students at school, one's colleagues at the office, and so on.
But at this time of year, when I'm staring down the barrel of a long winter, one reason is paramount: I ride to escape.
On a paramount level, one must ask whether the absence of evidence justifies inaction.
