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The tradition of Horace Mann was paramount among the students, the graduates, and the whole environment.
Even in ordinary times any question of amending the Constitution must be justly regarded as of paramount importance.
The influence of water communication is of paramount importance in determining the situation of towns in early times.
It limited itself to an agreement, in principle, which identified the paramount issues of urgent and general concern.
Did the Reformers set all their grievances aside before the paramount question, "Under which flag, Jameson?"
For paramount in his mind lay the thought of his approaching downfall, inevitable, utter, and final.
A glance at the map will show the paramount importance to Russia of the acquisition of this territory.
The following year the rumor became fact and the question of the exact location became of paramount interest.
Respecting my own feelings during that war, I may say that the paramount one was curiosity.
The Committee would impress upon parents the paramount duty they owe to their children in this matter.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.
The Commons acquired the complete control of the purse, which is considered paramount to all other authority.
The paramount doctrine contained in these five chapters is, accordingly, this: that men died and lived again.
Afterward, for more than half a century, the form was paramount; the term of substance again begins.
This he says is "paramount," though he takes care to skip off as quickly as possible to outside testimony.
The issue was therefore settled only in Paine's pamphlet, which remains a document of paramount historical interest.
The title Admiral was made the paramount honor, and to be the perpetual distinction of his representatives.
No, the first and paramount duty of a country is to protect and preserve itself against destruction.
Her Majesty's Government regret extremely that a paramount necessity should have arisen for these examples of severity.
Apart from the abstract but paramount question of Home Rule, there are no formed political principles or parties.
For there would not in that case have been the paramount necessity for every citizen to be present.
The hunting parties were of paramount importance, and they were kept out to the limits of their endurance.
Before the end of the month the peace question was the paramount one before Congress and the country.
Only a moment ago you had an 142 opportunity for observing that her word is our law paramount.
The superior chiefs themselves seldom fall, and no paramount chief is expected to lead his men to action.
A nation bled white of its men must make the care of children its first and paramount consideration.
It was easy to see that in this rough, western town the authority of the sheriff was paramount.
In the meantime civilization had made rapid progress, and the intellectual influence of China upon Japan was paramount.
All your attention henceforth must be given to the joint interests which must be paramount in your heart.
Nothing could prove more clearly that such influences are paramount to all others than the last election.
Giotto opened the second stage by introducing new motives, employed by him with paramount mastery in painting.
It is impossible to have this idea too present and paramount; only, the moral fiber must be braced too.
Max's eyes opened, gazing straight into the mirror, and once again in that night of contrasts, emotion rose paramount.
Your interests are paramount to those of a small, useless band of parasites who exploit you to their advantage.
For superstition still is paramount, despite the fact that some men know how to reach the stars.
They were paramount and supreme in Alexander's character, and every other human principle was subordinate to them.
The Queen's mere presence was enough to ensure that; but, in addition, the dominion of court etiquette was paramount.
With the last-named fact the essence of the new Empire is characterized: Prussia was the paramount country.
And paramount, catching the eye with color, weighing on the mind with meaning, were the city's banners.
How far was it possible, consistently with the claims of justice and the paramount supremacy of law?
Beauty of design has at length become of paramount importance, and the beautiful, so long neglected, is now avenged.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery.
And this being my conviction, I think it of paramount importance to have a good time while I am here.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
He declared that he knew nothing of mathematics, and treated the notion of their paramount importance with contempt.
Lang had overnight made up his mind to draw his employer's attention to several matters of paramount importance.
The desire for a quiet life, for reduced commitments, for comfortable terms with our neighbors is now paramount.
The patrolling of the reserves has shown that fire is the paramount danger to which they are exposed.
At the moment the thought of expression is paramount, and the delight lies simply in depicting and recording.
Herodotus, however, was still anything but satisfied as to the paramount value of the physical criterion of kinship.
It is far more important to make a good start intellectually, as that is the paramount business in college attendance.
With the relaxation of the paramount authority, the chain of subordinate oppression, as always happens, was made tighter.
When a king desired to be paramount over his neighbors he sent a horse to march through their territories.
And that debt paramount was to inform you first of anybody concerning what you read in a public newspaper.
To them, the insanity of belief is of paramount importance, and is more sacred and holy than human life.
There are laws founded upon necessity, and the eternal laws of morality, which have a paramount claim upon one.
Therefore, it is of paramount importance that both receive the initiations in this matter, for early impressions are everything.
The only thing that to her seemed of paramount importance was to fix a clear eye on the future.
I have lived a life in which my own affairs were always paramount, my own aims always most important.
The paramount effort in the manner of the advance was to deceive the enemy as to the real intention.
After these declarations of principles the struggle became one of paramount importance to the whole people of the State.
To interpret and to execute that will in accordance with the Constitution is the paramount duty of the Executive.
Certainly Scripture is the paramount authority, and some will take it as superior to all reason on a question like this.
The subject of the relations of sentiment and passion between the sexes has paramount claims on our attention.
My men are afraid to take a taxi when it is of paramount importance to get to a spot in a hurry.
Now, sir, having accomplished the great and paramount object of his life, he was ready for to die.
It is the art which fulfills both requirements with the idea paramount that has survived in all ages.
The consequences as to costs, always important considerations in dealing with human problems, are frequently the paramount determinant.
The paramount authority of the Grand Prince vanishes before the rival claims of seventy princes of the blood.
My advice to every person is, not to place his child where the Scripture does not reign paramount.
Meantime, since responsibility was not as yet definitely fallen on her, the need for normal behavior was paramount.
Although wealth and distinction in the intellectual world are desirable, they are not, to my mind, paramount objects.
Now, what he means by extending our views of the dominion of law is to make it paramount and supreme.
She could but think that were not other considerations held paramount he would have flown to her arms.
On such a day as this it does not seem of paramount importance whether the pudding be hot or cold.
Potter and painter here take a step, which secures for Attic pottery the paramount position for all time.
She was wonderfully true and faithful, and scarcely seemed to concede to gold its paramount rank and influence.
In the 'silent drama' facial expression and the art of conveying information by a gesture is of paramount importance.
In every circle since I have been here in England, I have heard the subject discussed as one of paramount importance.
In his more reflective hour the attractiveness of that lady which held the mirror to his features was paramount.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery.
These have been of paramount importance on many lines of evolution of the animal as well as of the vegetable kingdom.
The distinction which man enjoys above and beyond the station of the animal is due to this paramount virtue.
Some duties need but to be acknowledged by the smallest amount of action, to become paramount in their demands upon us.
It was an acknowledgment that paramount in the man's mind is passionate feeling for the woman he had married.
And it is necessary, because the other parties do not represent the principles which we consider of paramount importance.
These operators are likely to regard the maintaining of their internal emotional balance as paramount, far over-riding economic considerations.
Sometimes utility becomes the paramount element in determining value; but ordinarily it is subordinate to the cost of production.
To know is to love, respect and admire this grand old gentleman to whom honor and right are paramount.
The ceremony of an oath, so imposing, so paramount, and so indispensable in those days, illustrates strikingly this principle.
He deemed her will paramount to that of his constituents, who had desired him to vote for general Jackson.
I single out this fact, that it treats the reason as the proper, special, and paramount object of philosophy.
Shape, quality, proportion, and texture are of paramount importance, and these should be examined before the lines are studied.
It is of paramount importance to teach the young citizen to assume responsibility for his own development and health.
In the preface to Mein Kampf Hitler indicates the paramount importance he attaches to the art of political speaking.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
Two issues, however, have come upon the scene which for the time being are paramount and which seem organic.
It is easy to show in a very striking manner the paramount influence of the condition of the solid surface.
Upon this exciting and paramount topic he did not share the temper which possessed most of his party.