Sentence examples for were the foremost from inspiring English sources

He said the British were "the foremost advocates of free trade" in the EU.

In the late 19th century António Nobre and Teixeira de Pascoais were the foremost of a growing cult of saudosismo.

Mr. Woetzel and Mr. Martins were the foremost of the many male colleagues who joined and applauded the hero of the day.

In the early days of the republic, when regional disputes were the foremost conflict of the era, nominees were generally defined by their home turfs.

The trench lines of the Petersburg Richmond theatre of operations in the final months of that war were the foremost example of trench warfare in the 19th century.

Among his sitters were the foremost men of his time: Emperor William I, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Hermann von Helmholtz, and William Gladstone.

It was the foremost precursor of vaudeville.

The Warsaw ghetto was the foremost example.

Bābur himself was the foremost contributor.

Trauma is the foremost cause of death in young patients.

Christoph Martin Wieland was the foremost novelist of the German Enlightenment.