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Definition of paramount:

  • (adjective) having superior power and influence | Of the highest importance

Sentence Examples:

Julian thought not, but even a sister's solicitude offended his lifelong sentiment of paramount ownership in his brother.

In this he saw a national interest paramount to all others, whether the nation were governed democratically or otherwise.

In such a constricted society, thrown into such intense communication, the personal equation was naturally of paramount importance.

Sometimes it was the great fighters who were paramount, sometimes the great legislators, sometimes the great industrialists.

A nation is justified in repudiating its treaty obligations only when they are in conflict with great paramount interests.

Marketing home products advantageously is of paramount importance, and seems to be the point on which many beginners fail.

The American Indian would be the decisive element until one or other of the two nations and civilizations became paramount.

Theodore Roosevelt was no mystic or fatuous dreamer, indeed the factual and actual had always been paramount in his mind.

This rich and becoming mode of dress was gradually innovated upon until caprice reigned paramount over the national wardrobe.

The ambiguity of this sentence evidently misled Wallace into believing that the single variations were considered of paramount importance.

Certainly the question paramount to all is, to save and preserve pure self-government in principle and in its direct application.

I am for holding equal suffrage paramount to ordinary political questions, but I am not for repudiating party ties altogether.

We grant fully the paramount necessity for an ideal of progress and for constantly revising, purifying, and strengthening it.

With passions paramount by ages of contamination, and habits confirmed, opportunity would only sink them deeper in the mire.

Hitherto attempts to bring this question to an issue have run aground on the real or fancied jeopardy to paramount national interests.

Many reflecting men cherished no hope of national progress so long as the turbulent army was unrestrained by paramount authority.

In them the curate is by right president, episcopal authority is paramount, and the State cannot intervene if dissensions arise.

Woman's part in the consummation of any project which has to do with the elevation of mankind is of paramount importance.

When the necessity of collecting and searching for the Traditions became paramount, indefatigable research was displayed in the work.

At this juncture in the history of the northwest and its native inhabitants, the various fur companies had paramount influence.

And in submission to the policy of the law and its fortifying prohibitions the public interest is of paramount importance.

It is the last of these phases of self-consciousness that Fichte, who was Kant's immediate successor, regards as of paramount importance.

Cardinal Antonelli and the Jesuits had a paramount influence, and the dream of enlightenment and self-government was roughly dissipated.

At the proper moment Governor Pemberton, beautifully venerable, magnificently antique, tall, paramount, stepped forward upon the arm of the General.

Drama we want, always drama, for the central, essential, paramount affair, whatever it is; Harry's consciousness ought to be dramatized.

I do not ascribe to political institutions that paramount influence which it is the feeling of this age to attribute to them.

In that age, when religious questions were paramount, the work that devolved upon these men demanded insight, honesty, and great courage.

In the analog world of photocopies and microfilm, the issue of fidelity to the original becomes paramount, as do issues of "Whose fidelity?"

It is, therefore, of paramount importance to rightly exercise every part of the body, and this without undue effort or injurious strain.

Loyalty to this foundation principle of the Faith is the paramount duty of every believer and should be therefore wholehearted and unqualified.

At the same time a higher claim than hitherto made for the paramount importance of the whole subject is now courageously advanced.

The Queen-Consort was, at any rate nominally, paramount in the third, her authority extending over all its inmates, male and female.

The priests were not as yet persecuted, but from the moment that they were no longer paramount they believed themselves humiliated.

Under the spur of some driving impulse the will was travelling along a disused and preposterous channel to a paramount end.

All marvelled that at such a time he could adopt so trivial a line of action, neglecting duties that seemed paramount; they disapproved.

Before that epoch, the use of catapults, bows, or other missiles did not deduct from the paramount importance of personal valor.

In spite of steam, therefore, the desirability of a quick decision is really as paramount in modern conditions as in the old days.

It is, no doubt, like all great commercial centers, of paramount interest to its inhabitants; but to the traveler what is it?

This material possesses, therefore, many advantageous qualities which would recommend its adoption in cases where the question of permanence is of paramount importance.

The politics of the present day have become disgusting to genuine patriots who deem the good of their country paramount to party triumph.

Wilton fidgeted on his seat; but truth was paramount, and he answered, "He certainly implied that he was going to London."

Long before the National Convention of 1896 was held, the issues which were to be paramount in the campaign had begun to crystallize.

The paramount object of education should be to increase the strength of man, and to foster in him everything which conduces to life.

Difficulties that had been paramount, overpowering, fell all at once into perspective, becoming heights to be scaled rather than barriers defying passage.

The English locomotive builders, however, were determined to wrest the laurels away from the American company, and thus retrieve their paramount position.

With the changing of the erotic impression from the affirmative to the negative the symbols of light occur as the paramount object.

The paramount Powers prescribed the sacrifices of sovereignty which membership of the League necessitated, and forthwith dispensed themselves from making them.

Not less, within doors, a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress, servant and child, cousin and acquaintance.

Everything in the town, however, lapses into insignificance in face of the paramount interest attaching to the town as the birthplace of Shakespeare.

They had ever felt that this was anchored safely in every American breast, and was paramount to every other consideration or interest.

The issue was no longer doubtful, except where the right of voting was conferred on few, and the influence of squatters paramount.

One set forth reform as the paramount object of imprisoning, another, that kindness and humane treatment should prevail in all prison management.

To have refused a petition like this under the circumstances which had arisen, would have been tantamount to resigning the position of paramount power.

In the balance of perplexities, this weighed heavily against his first impulse to cast away all except paramount duty to his country.

Agreeably to this determination, she once more approached him upon whom she believed she had claims paramount to those of any other individual.

The paramount object must be to make the workhouse, if not absolutely unpleasant, less agreeable than the condition of laborious and striving poverty.

The operator ushered her into his car as though she were his queen, and the elevator the paramount plane of the royal flight.

Their natural courage required no long words to excite its ardor; but they should be reminded of the paramount importance of steadiness in action.

On the North American continent the paramount fear of the wild animal is aroused to its highest pitch by what is called "man scent."

The paramount revelation prevails with us; and all that clashes therewith, we do not so much believe, as believe that we can not disbelieve.

The only object of those who wield paramount authority over them seems to be to extract money in the most vexatious and expeditious manner.

Give me the luminous mind, where recognized and paramount duty dispels the harassing, ascertains the doubtful, confirms the wavering, sweetens the bitter.

Then, so obvious was it that his hurts were not of paramount importance, she relented to the extent of allowing General Armstrong to enter.

How to arrange her draperies most effectively for the forthcoming sitting was the subject of paramount importance in her thoughts just now.

Finally, to both sages the great and paramount consideration for a prince or chief seemed to be the peace and prosperity of his people.

It does, indeed, so happen that there are powerful motives on the other side concurring with that which has here been represented as paramount.

The masterly handling of these vehicles and the realization of their characteristic types of beauty have come to be regarded as the craftsman's paramount concern.

Believing that understanding, not mere mechanical memorizing, of the Catechism is of paramount import, Luther insisted that the instruction must be popular throughout.

It is of paramount importance, therefore, that the addresses of letters should not only be legible, but the proper and the complete address.

It would be difficult to describe the feeling paramount in Jessie's breast, on hearing the singular and startling confession which Fellows had made.

The mind at this age is very susceptible to influences of any kind, and the ideals instilled into a girl's mind are of paramount importance.

He had shed tears of sorrow and pity until indignation swallowed up each softer feeling, and a desire to succor and to avenge became paramount.

As the days lengthen, and the spring sun gets higher and warmer, they gradually waken her docile nature to its one paramount task.

This community had long reigned paramount in that kingdom; one of the society was, by custom, always selected as confessor of the king.

To tax it is not only derogatory to the dignity but subversive of the powers of the government, and repugnant to its paramount sovereignty.

One thing was paramount, his determination to know everything of the crime that had been perpetrated in the main drive of the Silver Stream.

The leaves upon her trees were blown and dingy, odd pieces of paper crept here and there into her parks, the dust was paramount.

James was master of the art of dress, and consequently consummated that paramount operation with the decisive rapidity of one whose principles are settled.

She brooded over herself, wondering what she was, and how she came to be so unconcerned with things that to other women seemed paramount.

And this may occur whilst nations, but yesterday paramount in riches and power, sink by their own madness into impotence and poverty.

She did not think it of paramount importance when speaking to the unorthodox, or even to the agnostic, to state her own beliefs precisely.

For every one of you his paramount duty is to choose for himself that on which no other may infringe and none usurp from him.

Testimony in support of the statement that training in speaking is of paramount importance in all careers might be adduced from a score of sources.

An impression is to be created, growing and growing; and it can well be created in the loose panoramic style which is Thackeray's paramount arm.

Some of these dispensed altogether with clothing, a custom which was frowned upon by Buddhism and put down wherever its influence was paramount.

The paramount importance to the national welfare of a wise selection of ministers and officials receives its full share of attention in the Chinese Bible.

Apparently it was Colbert's plan to make of the governor a distinguished figurehead, with large military powers but without paramount influence in civil affairs.

He was practically paramount, the two remaining consuls being ciphers, and the other institutions being so organized as to concentrate power in the executive.

The boy who sells you a paper and the youth who blackens your shoes both show solicitude to elicit your views upon this paramount subject.

Long ago, by many signs, in many ways, it taught me the paramount quality of the emanation from my soul that is called my influence.

In the deepest recesses of his nature burnt the unquenchable fire, the paramount longing to follow in Nature's footsteps, and to create things of beauty.

The incipient campaign of the war was peculiarly regulated and determined by the paramount aims which had impelled the respective parties to arms.

Probably because the wish to continue to exist is not uppermost in their minds, the wish and the hope to achieve success is the paramount feeling.

Watching them as I have done for years, I am still undecided whether excessive timidity or their low order of intelligence is paramount in the rattlesnakes.

A Stuart, his fair hair muddied and unkempt, had charge of this march south; and his will was paramount, because his army loved him.

It is, however, a paramount, though bothersome duty in every naturalist to try and make out all that has been done by others on the subject.

Consider it a paramount duty to attend all meetings and get the most out of the opportunities offered you in the American Band of Girl Scouts.

She was regal, she was paramount in her world, and the sun seemed to be watching her, and shining solely for her illustrious progress.

There his influence was paramount, and it would have been said that he had chosen a field of battle where he knew no combatant could appear.

Its immediate acquisition by our government is of paramount importance, and we cannot doubt but that it is a consummation devoutly wished for by its inhabitants.