Word: foremost
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When Harvard College was established in 1636, its founders proclaimed that their foremost goal was to prepare young men to enter the ministry...
...primary objective was to attract people interested in faculty positions. But the limitation in funding forced us to approach the series more pragmatically and consider the issues as the foremost criteria," Bryan A. Stevenson, publicity chairman of the series, said yesterday...
First and foremost, the Greens want to reverse current NATO plans to begin putting hundreds of U.S.-built nuclear missiles in Germany later this year. As one Green spokesman put it, "We don't want to be a ball of the superpowers." Another party member explains why the young Germans want to make their country a neutral, nuclear-free zone: "We're the generation that grew up asking parents what they did during Hitler and the war. They my son grown up and asks, 'Daddy, where were you when they turned Germany into concrete?' I have to have an answer...
Fred C. Robinson, widely considered one of the world's foremost authorities on Old English, said yesterday that he communicated his decision to Harvard officials last week...
...seen as a dishonor to his memory. It might also make her something of a martyr and inflame those ultraleftists now in hiding. By sparing her, the new government can reinforce its image of moderation and self-confidence. Says a Chinese official: "A political consideration is, of course, foremost: to preserve the current unity and stability in our country. Besides, she no longer has the ability to stir up trouble...