Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students in the University of Cambridge. The Oxford Union decided against female suffrage by a vote of 51 to 17. In Cambridge, That in case of any decided action on the part of Russia and Austria with regard to the partition or reconstruction of Turkey, it is a paramount and national necessity for England to take possession of the Suez Canal," was decided by a vote of 40 to 2; the only speaker against being Mustafa Ben Yusaf...
...William's aspiration to succeed Ed ward the Confessor known publicly before Hilde brand acquired his paramount influence at Rome