Sentence examples for paramount rather than from inspiring English sources

And much of the positivity came from the movie division Paramount rather than the cable networks on the back of healthy theatrical box-office returns on movies such as Hugo, The Adventures of Tintin and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

"I am saying a future Conservative government would no longer subsidise onshore wind and have a proper system in the planning system so that local views are paramount, rather than being overridden by national imperatives.

Paramount, rather than attempting to drive backwards to take miles off the odometer, is actually thinking ahead.

Such debates suggest that reparations are being interpreted as restitution, where the legalistic logic of property rights and inheritance are paramount, rather than under the broader project of repairing relationships (Thompson 2002, Brooks 2004).

Some scholars have suggested that Philip did not like the inclusion of living persons in a religious scene; some others that El Greco's works violated a basic rule of the Counter-Reformation, namely that in the image the content was paramount rather than the style.

Four experts argued that measures to ensure clean hands and good hygiene after using the toilet was paramount rather than the type of sewage disposal system.

Seeking to smooth things over, the studio bowed to DreamWorks' demand that its movies be labeled "DreamWorks-Paramount," rather than just "Paramount".

Monitoring the epidemics of HIV in accordance with population segmentation and localised intervention programmes would have a paramount importance rather than using the national prevalence as the key monitoring variable.

With just one owned-and-operated station, Paramount's program service never gelled into a true television network; television historians such as Alex McNeil (1996) consider Paramount programs syndicated rather than network series.

Rather, it was explicitly secular -- he considers the question to be of paramount importance to the nation rather than simply another textual analysis of divine law and tradition.

Likewise, attitudes toward hierarchy may vary scientists from Asian cultures, where respect for authority is paramount, may wait for guidance rather than taking the initiative expected in the more individualist cultures of the United States or United Kingdom.