Sentence examples for the foremost place from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

America had elected its first proudly born-again Christian, Jimmy Carter Jerry Falwelll had founded the Moral Majority; Iran had replaced the worldly shah with Ayatollah Khomeini; Zia ul Haq was busy Islamising Pakistan; Buddhism had been formally granted the foremost place in Sri Lanka's constitution; and an anti-communist Pole had become head of the Catholic church.What caused this shift?

The RGS president, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, said that Nansen has claimed "the foremost place amongst northern travellers", and later awarded him the Society's prestigious Founder's Medal.

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".

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.

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.

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

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.