The word 'uppermost' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to mean 'at the highest or farthest point; highest in rank or importance'. For example: His uppermost priority was to finish the project on time.
Place the peppers and tomatoes, skin-side uppermost, under the hot grill to brown or char.
Rose's response: "So now you can't even be bothered to roll out a bit of pastry?" Butter, for greasing 10-12 apricots, halved and stoned 1 tbsp caster sugar 2 egg yolks 2 whole eggs 75g caster sugar 1 tbsp potato flour 1 tbsp cognac 300ml whipping cream Icing sugar, to finish Heat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Lightly butter a baking dish, then neatly arrange the apricots cut side uppermost.
Instead, they will put that off for a few more years, thus postponing any productivity gains a new system might bring.Should January 1st 2000 bring civilisation crashing to a halt, with aeroplanes falling from the sky and anarchy in the streets, such concerns will not be uppermost.
The uppermost parts of its thick cloud layer mysteriously absorb half of the ultraviolet light received by the planet.
And Japan's wartime atrocities in China place the country uppermost in the hierarchy of the despised.
Now there is broad if not fervent support for the notion of Alan Johnson, the genial health secretary, leading Labour into the next election, which must be held by June 2010, if not for very long beyond it (see article).Moreover, the issue uppermost in voters' minds has changed, and this does not favour Mr Brown.
To keep this uppermost in voters' minds, the SNP wants to prolong the vituperative, vivid and polarising politics of that contest—hence the Yes banners and vitriol evident in Dundee.
Concern about the outlook for consumption will have been uppermost in the MPC's minds at the committee's first meeting of the year.The British Retail Consortium reported this week that sales in December were the worst in the history of its series which goes back to 1993.
As the ministers left, the uppermost thought in their minds must have been that Laos is a poor and possibly unstable place.Some Vientiane residents believe the explosions are the work of a clique within the regime that is seeking to take power.
Ms Rice's main concern was to improve America's ties with other great powers a policy that, while part of the neo-con agenda, was hardly uppermost in it.Even Mr Cheney, who was to become the neo-cons' most powerful backer, seemed to differ from them early on.
Most of the preaching in the city's many mosques is in Urdu.Since 2001, and especially since the London bombings in July 2005 by British Islamists (one born in Bradford), places like this have been uppermost in policymakers' minds as they try to untangle the connection, if any, between cultural separation and terrorism.
