Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...found a number of years ago in the auriferous gravel beds of California, and which had been in the possession of the late Prof. J. D. Whitney up to the time of his death. This skull, together with the manuscript and printed matter relating to it, is of paramount importance in connection with the antiquity of man on the Pacific Coast of America. For the present it has been placed in a private cabinet in Professor Putnam's office at the Museum...
...while to begin with muzzling this University. The plea that the government, right or wrong, must be supported is wholly out of place in this juncture. There are, of course, crises when the nation is engaged in a struggle from which it can not retreat, and then the paramount duty to save the country properly silences private doubts. But it does not follow that whenever the government proposes any position on foreign affairs all criticism shall be dumb, and the nation shall follow docilely into any extreme, even into a war which the people may abhor. What is popular government...
...Catholic Church's view of liberty is singularly inconsistent. In England and America it stands forward as the champion of liberty. In Spain, Austria, and Belgium, where the Catholic Church has paramount authority, liberty does not exist. The Catholic Church claims, too, that it has always been the ideal of truth and honesty. As a matter of fact the reverse is the case. The Church now denies the concessions it made on being allowed to have freedom of worship in England in 1825. It openly admits the imposition of "pious frauds," and claims that faith need not be kept with...
...upon which the corporation bases its refusal to accede to the recommendation of the alumni are understood to be that many questions beside that of art have to be considered in connection with the erection of new buildings; that the practical and utilitarian aspects of the matter are usually paramount, while the question of art is generally of the least importance; and that the corporation cannot delegate any of its authority to another body of men. The corporation therefore declines to grant the request of the alumni...
...claims of the public service are paramount to party allegiance, Lalor, I. 488, - (a) Elected primarily to serve the government...