First and foremost, they depend on the inhuman idiocies of the Communist regime.

First and foremost: No one -- no, not anyone -- in the family is allowed to issue blanket invitations to his or her own circle.

First and foremost, vocational courses should not replace courses which are essential parts of the required academic program for graduation.

* First and foremost, it governed player contracts that set up mechanisms to end the cross-league raids on rosters and reinforced the power of the hated reserve clause that kept players virtual slaves to their baseball masters.

First and foremost they remained the primary choice for confronting enemy cavalry.

A passage in Muhtasar kitab al-buldan illustrates the division of Islamic society into strata: " First are the rulers, whom their deserts has placed in the foremost rank ; second are the viziers, distinguished by wisdom and understanding ; third are the wealthy upper classes, lifted by their possessions ; fourth are the middle classes who are attached to the upper three by culture ( ta ' addub ); the remainder are the lowest classes that are filthy refuse, a torrent of scum, none of whom thinks of anything but food and sleep.

The same major interests that Tewodros had — the security of Ethiopia's traditional borders and modernization — were once again foremost, as demonstrated by the outcome of the First Italo – Ethiopian War, Ethiopia's admission to the League of Nations ( 28 September 1923 ), and the 1935 Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

First and foremost it forms a body of intricate judicial opinions, legislation, customs, and recommendations, many of them passed down over the centuries, and an assortment of ingrained behaviors, relayed to successive generations from the moment a child begins to speak.

First and foremost, they are expected to preserve the doctrine and discipline now known as Buddhism.

First and foremost, the warlord had to descend from the Minamoto clan.

First and foremost, art was dedicated to the Church.

First and foremost, a drummer is a musician that performs music on the multi-percussion instrument known as the drum set, which usually consists of a bass drum ( with pedal ), a floor tom, tom-toms, a snare drum, hi-hats, a ride cymbal, and a crash cymbal.

First and foremost, all features of the original property or object must be accounted for.

First and foremost, Turkish rap distinguishes itself from German and American hip hop by the utilizing the Turkish language rather than German or English.

The soldiers of the 69th, with an alacrity which will ever do them credit, and Lieutenant Pearson of the same regiment, were almost the foremost on this service – the first man who jumped into the enemy's mizen chains was Commander Berry, late my First Lieutenant ( Captain Miller was in the very act of going also, but I directed him to remain ); he was supported from our sprit sail yard, which hooked in the mizen rigging.

First and foremost was the Tactical Control Console that allowed four Rapier launchers to be controlled from a central location.

First and foremost of these natural wonders is the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River which flows through the center of the city.

First and foremost, Murasaki's language, Heian Period court Japanese, was highly inflected and had very complex grammar.

* ' First and foremost we wish to see the re-unification of Ireland restored.

First and foremost are the Golden Bananas.

First and foremost, such standards allow for interoperability between different electrical components.

First and foremost, biomineralizing organisms have a far greater chance of being represented in the fossil record than an entirely soft bodied organism.

First and foremost I need it necessary to note that, when at large, I did not have time to

The America First Committee ( AFC ) was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II.

* 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.

Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems ' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th century English composers ( beginning with Arthur Somervell ) both before and after the First World War.

First an object of scorn within the arts community, the Fountain has since become almost canonized by some as one of the most recognizable modernist works of sculpture.

First performed by the Ballets Russes in 1917, it succeeded in creating a scandal but in a different way than Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps had done almost five years earlier.

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

The First Crusade was composed almost entirely of Frankish Princes.

In another instance of devotion to detail, he laboured over the official First Symphony for almost fifteen years, from about 1861 to 1876.

The Italian communes were granted almost complete autonomy from the very early days of the Kingdom, thanks to their military and naval support in the years following the First Crusade.

And Jason Lawrence points out that Shakespeare ’ s Italian dialogue in the play derive " almost entirely " from Florio ’ s First Fruits ( 1578 ).

After the publication of the Q1 and Q2 Hamlet in 1603, regular new play publication ceased for almost five years ( three new plays were issued in 1608 and 1609, the last ones until 18 plays made their publication debut in the First Folio of 1623 ).

In almost all countries, the State maintains the control of the means of communication and special freedoms such as those delineated in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution are rather limited.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

By mid-November, the White Armies almost simultaneously became exhausted, and, in January 1920, Budenny's First Cavalry Army entered Rostov-on-Don.

By the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre-hybrids were becoming the norm ; war-action hybrids ( like First Blood and Missing in Action ), science fiction action ( like The Terminator, and RoboCop ), horror-action ( like Aliens and Predator ), and even the occasional musical-action-comedy hybrid ( like The Blues Brothers ).

During this time the Canadian government signed treaties ( known as the " Numbered Treaties ") with various First Nations ( but not Métis ), which turned over rights to almost the entire western plains to the Government of Canada.

First, using evidence from neuroscience and neural network simulations, he argues that certain concepts, such as color and spatial relation concepts ( e. g. " red " or " over "; see also qualia ), can be almost entirely understood through the examination of how processes of perception or motor control work.

* Catherine Earnshaw: First introduced in Lockwood's discovery of her diary and etchings, Catherine's life is almost entirely detailed in the first volume.

During the First Serbian Uprising, led by Duke Karađorđe Petrović, Serbia was independent for almost a decade before the Ottoman army was able to reoccupy the country.

Public transport to districts within the city and to the surrounding towns, like Bridge of Allan and Alloa, is almost completely provided by buses operated principally by the First Group, although there are also railway links to Bridge of Allan, Dunblane, and, since 2008, Alloa.

In this adaptation, the induction and all subsequent references to Sly are absent, but apart from that, it is almost word-for-word the 1623 First Folio text.

After the end of the First Age, the Dwarves spoken of are almost exclusively of Durin's line.

First, he insisted that the ( almost stationary ) camera film a dance routine in a single shot, if possible, while holding the dancers in full view at all times.

Its March 2006 report, " Getting It Wrong the First Time ," shows 1, 295 restatements of financial earnings in 2005 for companies listed on U. S. securities markets, almost twice the number for 2004.

In traditional Chinese historiography, the First Emperor of the Chinese unified states was almost always portrayed as a brutal tyrant who had obsessive fear of assassination.