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  • In cases like that, says the doctor, a patient's rights are paramount.†   (source)
  • But it must be: the needs of the tribe are paramount.†   (source)
  • This paramount importance of gumption solves a problem of format of this Chautauqua.†   (source)
  • It seemed as if, for other Asians at Brown, racial identity meant little more than eating with chopsticks and finding an Asian mate, and the paramount political issue seemed to be the "glass ceiling," the fact that Asians weren't yet rising to the very tops of institutions.†   (source)
  • His eyes ordered me to cooperate, but once more-when Mahtob's welfare was the paramount concern-I found the will to stand up to him.†   (source)
  • The regent had not forgotten that it was due to my father's intervention that he had become acting paramount chief.†   (source)
  • You are both welcome to my hut, but as you can see, I am in the midst of working with Eragon, and that is of paramount importance.†   (source)
  • What I did get was that it was paramount that we protect my mom from anything that might upset her, even if I wasn't sure what those things were.†   (source)
  • For men, a woman's looks are of paramount importance.†   (source)
  • We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world.†   (source)
  • Woolf was in a career in which staying light was of paramount importance.†   (source)
  • Remember: posture is paramount.†   (source)
  • Within the walls of our academy, however, the influence of Madame Mao was still paramount and she alone controlled our political education.†   (source)
  • Discipline in the family was paramount.†   (source)
  • And paramount was that an important chest be shipped with us, a chest which might have to be fetched carefully from our house during the day and put on board, not in the freight but in our cabin.†   (source)
  • His paramount concern throughout the entire assault was to keep his dark glasses and false mustache in place so that he might continue pretending he was somebody else and be spared the dreaded necessity of having to confront them with his authority.†   (source)
  • Everybody was on their way to the movies—the Paramount or the Astor or the Strand or the Capitol or one of those crazy places.†   (source)
  • The truth was paramount, but as every trial lawyer knew, there were various ways of telling the truth.†   (source)
  • Acknowledge him, honor him, spirit him off to a remote resort known for its confidentiality-for that, too, is paramount.†   (source)
  • 334 Yet for all they had in common, the principal difference between the two was vast and paramount.†   (source)
  • That construct extended to the bedroom, where his pleasure was paramount.†   (source)
  • They'd set rules, and for each of them the need to abide by them was paramount.†   (source)
  • Audrey Hepburn, twenty-one years old, opened in Gigi on Broadway, signed with Paramount Pictures and was engaged to be married.†   (source)
  • I believe that man is meant as a great experiment whose possible failure by man's own guilt would be paramount to the failure of creation itself.†   (source)
  • Firstly, I shouldn't have made my desire for a child so paramount as to cloud my good judgment, which is what happened when I was interviewed by the woman at the agency.†   (source)
  • It increases with each turn, with certain turns being paramount.†   (source)
  • The desire to have a night out together was clearly mutual, but the welfare of the pups remained paramount with Angeline, even though they seemed large enough and able enough to need far less attention.†   (source)
  • But the lieutenant knew that in war purpose is never paramount, neither purpose nor cause, and that battles are always fought among human beings, not purposes.†   (source)
  • Saul arose with paramount dignity, tugged on his belt, and spoke with a musical prepubic voice.†   (source)
  • What is it that is paramount within me at this instant of time?†   (source)
  • To solidify this bloc became the paramount goal of Congress, expressly or impliedly governing its decisions on other issues—particularly the admission of new states, the readmission of Southern states and the determination of senatorial credentials.†   (source)
  • He shook his head feverishly, and clung to the paramount obsession.†   (source)
  • Of course it matters! It's paramount.   (source)
  • He backed away, thoughts racing through his mind, outrage paramount.†   (source)
  • Joffrey gave you Harrenhal, made you Lord Paramount of the Trident …. why ….†   (source)
  • Lord Paramount of the Trident, Sansa thought, and Lord of Harrenhul as well.†   (source)
  • "It is not," Leah said with a sigh, "paramount."†   (source)
  • Petyr Baelish is the Lord Paramount of the Trident.†   (source)
  • Paramount among them was the fact that Keyes reinforced Ira's soggy notions of a good time.†   (source)
  • A risk was taken, timing paramount, speed the cover.†   (source)
  • Most backup protocols advocated a secondary backup system off-site in case of earthquake, fire, or theft, but Katherine and her brother agreed that secrecy was paramount; once this data left the building to an off-site server, they could no longer be certain it would stay private.†   (source)
  • I was given to know that my feelings were paramount, that it was up to me to establish the degree of closeness that would be comfortable and the appropriate way for us to behave toward one another.†   (source)
  • The family was paramount -- one member's disgrace or success belonged to all -- and the herd of cows was his family's pride, like a bank account made public, one from which you rarely made withdrawals: a source of prestige, and insurance in times of scarcity.†   (source)
  • When I realized what the hints alluded to, I put aside all else and committed myself to hunting down this truth, this answer, for I knew it was of paramount importance.†   (source)
  • Petyr Baelish, Lord of Harrenhal, Lord Paramount of the Trident, and Lord Protector of the Eyrie and the Vale of Arryn, looked up from the letter he was writing.†   (source)
  • Paramount, however, was secrecy.†   (source)
  • Be it known that Lord Baelish is granted the castle of Harrenhal with all its attendant lands and incomes, there to make his seat and rule henceforth as Lord Paramount of the Trident.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, Eragon was convinced that everything they said was of paramount importance,although he could not have explained why, nor could he remember what they had discussed only moments before.†   (source)
  • Thus, it was with great dismay that I learned in 1980 that the king, Sabata Dalindyebo, the paramount chief of the Thembu, had been deposed by my nephew, K. D. Matanzima, the prime minister of the Transkei.†   (source)
  • Rath's saga offers a glimpse of the brutality inflicted routinely on women and girls in much of the world, a malignancy that is slowly gaining recognition as one of the paramount human rights problems of this century.†   (source)
  • It was the colonizers -- first the Germans, then the Belgians -- who simplified what had been complex societies and made the Hutu-Tutsi difference a paramount and rigid fact of life for Rwandans and, to a lesser degree, for Burundians.†   (source)
  • My paramount interest is with my adorable Marie, who I trust you'll notice is sitting beside me, not you.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, in a country like ours, where internal security is paramount, even soldiers must justify the possession of such immense quantities of firepower.†   (source)
  • Part of me did feel sad for China, losing two of its dancers in just over a year, but the pursuit of our artistic dreams was paramount.†   (source)
  • Howard did his best to warm them to the idea of rescheduling the match, even setting aside his heretofore paramount goal of breaking Sun Beau's earnings mark.†   (source)
  • Your perceptions are nothing short of brilliant, but you do understand that confidentiality is paramount.†   (source)
  • We heard the rumors out of our Far East stations which, frankly, most of us believed were exaggerated in the spreading, and paramount among them was your name and that of the assassin Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • My guardian was my cousin, who was the acting paramount chief of Tembuland, and I am related both to the present paramount chief of Tembuland, Sabata Dalindyebo, and to Kaizer Matanzima, the Chief Minister of the Transkei.†   (source)
  • He treated all the witnesses with paramount consideration, though I thought he treated all the lawyers in the court with a visible contempt.†   (source)
  • But Senator Underwood, convinced that the Klan was contrary to all the principles of Jeffersonian democracy in which he believed, denounced it in no uncertain terms, insisted that this was the paramount issue upon which the party would have to take a firm stand, and fought vigorously but unsuccessfully to include an anti-Klan plank in the party platform.†   (source)
  • Like some purifying ritual, he repeated his life story to me, the Protestant ethic, the unassailable formula of the American dream, Horatio Alger in the cotton mills, Henry Piedmont, child of poverty, man of paramount success, a golfing buddy of Jesus, had given me the green light to go to Washington.†   (source)
  • When he mentioned Cumberland to me we were in the lobby of the Paramount Theatre waiting for Stella.†   (source)
  • I hold it a paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem), to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear that we should never knowingly lend ourselves, directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death—to find new places for it to live in, when it can not longer exist in the old.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he did not even think of it as a sin until he thought of the man who would be waiting for him at home, since to fourteen the paramount sin would be to be publicly convicted of virginity.†   (source)
  • With these people home and farm were paramount.†   (source)
  • What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?'†   (source)
  • Certainly Lawson's jealousy was his paramount emotion.†   (source)
  • Tom saw that this was a paramount issue with Sally.†   (source)
  • But, mindful of paramount obligations I strive against scruples that may tend to enervate decision.†   (source)
  • They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance.†   (source)
  • Those interests are now paramount in this office.†   (source)
  • This was my duty, but there was another still paramount to that.†   (source)
  • …the two minor advantages of letting her taste the full savour of her affection for us in long years of mourning, and of causing universal stupefaction in the village when she should sally forth to conduct our obsequies, crushed but courageous, moribund but erect, the paramount and priceless boon of forcing her at the right moment, with no time to be lost, no room for weakening hesitations, to go off and spend the summer at her charming farm of Mirougrain, where there was a waterfall.†   (source)
  • It was not out of keeping with these traits that on a passage when nothing demanded his paramount action, he was the most undemonstrative of men.†   (source)
  • He, Mr Clare, would much have liked to see d'Urberville in the Church to whose ministry he had devoted so many years of his own life, and would have helped him to enter a theological college to that end; but since his correspondent had possibly not cared to do this on account of the delay it would have entailed, he was not the man to insist upon its paramount importance.†   (source)
  • I will call at four o'clock in the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of paramount importance.†   (source)
  • When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident or a series of accidents can balance it.†   (source)
  • Frail, swept away by a breath, but at the same time in harmony, not with the season, with the hour; a promise of that immediate pleasure which the day will deny or fulfil, and thereby of the one paramount immediate pleasure, the pleasure of loving and of being loved; more soft, more warm upon tie stone than even moss is; alive, a ray of sunshine sufficing for its birth, and for the birth of joy, even in the heart of winter.†   (source)
  • …subdued and swayed by the unconfessed feeling that he was, perhaps not less dear, but at least less welcome to her than anyone, even the most wearisome of the Verdurins' 'faithful,'—when he betook himself to a world in which he was the paramount example of taste, a man whom no pains were spared to attract, whom people were genuinely sorry not to see, he began once again to believe in the existence of a happier life, almost to feel an appetite for it, as an invalid may feel who has…†   (source)
  • If, when Odette, in the street, had acknowledged the salute of a passer-by, which had aroused Swann's jealousy, she replied to his questions by associating the stranger with any of the two or three paramount duties of which she had often spoken to him; if, for instance, she said: "That's a gentleman who was in my friend's box the other day; the one I go to the Hippodrome with," that explanation would set Swann's suspicions at rest; it was, after all, inevitable that this friend should…†   (source)
  • Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on — "During the moment I was silent, Miss Eyre, I was arranging a point with my destiny.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me that while I had been addressing him, he carefully revolved every statement that I made; fully comprehended the meaning; could not gainsay the irresistible conclusions; but, at the same time, some paramount consideration prevailed with him to reply as he did.†   (source)
  • Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase.†   (source)
  • 'Humph!' said Miss Murdstone, still keeping her eye on the pickles; 'it is of more importance than anything else — it is of paramount importance — that my brother should not be disturbed or made uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • Kitty felt a peculiar pleasure in being able now to talk to her mother on equal terms about those questions of such paramount interest in a woman's life.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 21 Madam Mantalini finds herself in a Situation of some Difficulty, and Miss Nickleby finds herself in no Situation at all The agitation she had undergone, rendered Kate Nickleby unable to resume her duties at the dressmaker's for three days, at the expiration of which interval she betook herself at the accustomed hour, and with languid steps, to the temple of fashion where Madame Mantalini reigned paramount and supreme.†   (source)
  • As the duties of a mother were thought to be paramount to all other considerations, the widow felt none of that embarrassment, in preferring her claims, to which even a female fortune hunter among ourselves might be liable.†   (source)
  • Mr Merdle intimated that Society was the apple of his eye, and that its claims were paramount to every other consideration.†   (source)
  • Further, she was lady paramount over certain vaults in the basement, sharply spiked off from communication with the predatory world; and over the relics of the current day's work, consisting of blots of ink, worn-out pens, fragments of wafers, and scraps of paper torn so small, that nothing interesting could ever be deciphered on them when Mrs. Sparsit tried.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, when a republic falls under the sway of a single individual, the demeanor of the sovereign is simple and unpretending, as if his authority was not yet paramount.†   (source)
  • That is still paramount to-day, and, in the moving crowd of good society, the men of valor and reality are known, and rise to their natural place.†   (source)
  • I thought it would be just a little shock; but the way she took it proves that her good manners are paramount.†   (source)
  • …jealousy and their little rupture; but that Becky never gave the least encouragement to the unfortunate officer, and that she had never ceased to think about Jos from the very first day she had seen him, though, of course, her duties as a married woman were paramount—duties which she had always preserved, and would, to her dying day, or until the proverbially bad climate in which Colonel Crawley was living should release her from a yoke which his cruelty had rendered odious to her.†   (source)
  • They came back into the first of the rooms, where the tea had been served; but as the two other ladies were still on the terrace, and as Isabel had not yet been made acquainted with the view, the paramount distinction of the place, Mr. Osmond directed her steps into the garden without more delay.†   (source)
  • They are paramount in the thoughts of a professional man like myself, who wishes to preserve a good name among his fellow-practitioners and society at large.†   (source)
  • …and though the only homage he ever exacted, was implicit, instantaneous obedience; though he required no man to remove the shoes from his feet ere stepping upon the quarter-deck; and though there were times when, owing to peculiar circumstances connected with events hereafter to be detailed, he addressed them in unusual terms, whether of condescension or IN TERROREM, or otherwise; yet even Captain Ahab was by no means unobservant of the paramount forms and usages of the sea.†   (source)
  • 'Why, that Mr Watkins, my dear,' said Mrs Nickleby slowly, as if she were making a tremendous effort to recollect something of paramount importance; 'that Mr Watkins—he wasn't any relation, Miss Knag will understand, to the Watkins who kept the Old Boar in the village; by-the-bye, I don't remember whether it was the Old Boar or the George the Third, but it was one of the two, I know, and it's much the same—that Mr Watkins said, when you were only two years and a half old, that you were…†   (source)
  • I said he was right there — never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount.†   (source)
  • Nicholas, having highly commended the resolution, Mr Crummles went on to impart such further intelligence relative to their mutual friends as he thought might prove interesting; informing Nicholas, among other things, that Miss Snevellicci was happily married to an affluent young wax-chandler who had supplied the theatre with candles, and that Mr Lillyvick didn't dare to say his soul was his own, such was the tyrannical sway of Mrs Lillyvick, who reigned paramount and supreme.†   (source)
  • This moral reflection reminding her of the necessity of being peculiarly smart on the occasion, so as to counterbalance Miss La Creevy, and be herself an effectual set-off and atonement, led Mrs Nickleby into a consultation with her daughter relative to certain ribbons, gloves, and trimmings: which, being a complicated question, and one of paramount importance, soon routed the previous one, and put it to flight.†   (source)
  • But with what fitness, let it be asked of the noble lord, his patron, has this alien, whom the concession of a gracious prince has admitted to civic rights, constituted himself the lord paramount of our internal polity?†   (source)
  • But what necessity can there be of applying this expedient to a government limited, as the federal government will be, by the authority of a paramount Constitution?†   (source)
  • "Hush, friend Sancho," said Don Quixote; "since this lady duenna comes in quest of me from such a distant land she cannot be one of those the apothecary meant; moreover this is a countess, and when countesses serve as duennas it is in the service of queens and empresses, for in their own houses they are mistresses paramount and have other duennas to wait on them."†   (source)
  • At this thought he felt such vexation and anger that he reasoned the matter thus: "If Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot, saying, 'To cut comes to the same thing as to untie,' and yet did not fail to become lord paramount of all Asia, neither more nor less could happen now in Dulcinea's disenchantment if I scourge Sancho against his will; for, if it is the condition of the remedy that Sancho shall receive three thousand and odd lashes, what does it matter to me whether he…†   (source)
  • Where no Constitution, paramount to the government, either existed or could be obtained, no constitutional security, similar to that established in the United States, was to be attempted.†   (source)
  • My squire, God's curse upon him, is better at unloosing his tongue in talking impertinence than in tightening the girths of a saddle to keep it steady; but however I may be, allen or raised up, on foot or on horseback, I shall always be at your service and that of my lady the duchess, your worthy consort, worthy queen of beauty and paramount princess of courtesy."†   (source)
  • An alien, therefore, legally incapacitated for certain rights in the latter, may, by previous residence only in the former, elude his incapacity; and thus the law of one State be preposterously rendered paramount to the law of another, within the jurisdiction of the other.†   (source)
  • [1] If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state.†   (source)
  • To avoid the confusion which would unavoidably result from the contradictory decisions of a number of independent judicatories, all nations have found it necessary to establish one court paramount to the rest, possessing a general superintendence, and authorized to settle and declare in the last resort a uniform rule of civil justice.†   (source)
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