He was the first and, to date, is the only President of the United States to be awarded America's highest military honor, and the only person in history to receive both his nation's highest honor for military valor and the world's foremost prize for peace.

His precepts as contained in the Upanishads ( the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad ) stand foremost as the crest-jewel of the highest teachings on knowledge of Brahman.

Hayden became one of the foremost players in the league, and in 2009 won the Orange Cap as the season's highest run-scorer, with 572.

By this time, Ziegler had become the foremost official painter of the Third Reich and was awarded the Gold Badge, the highest party member recognition, of the NSDAP.

Heigo was academically gifted, but soon after failing to secure a place in Tokyo's foremost high school, he began to detach himself from the rest of the family, preferring to concentrate on his interest in foreign literature.

In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

" The rise of the German Empire since 1871 posed a new challenge, for it ( along with the United States ) threatened to take Britain's place as the world's foremost industrial power.

His works entitle him to a foremost place among Spanish prose writers.

Patriotism had an important place in the school curriculum, and the generation that was coming of age in 1941 had been educated to think of themselves as Americans first and foremost.

But these works, while proving Scaliger's right to the foremost place among his contemporaries as Latin scholar and critic, did not go beyond mere scholarship.

Some historians have also called that Bonifacio share or even take the place of José Rizal as the ( foremost ) Philippine national hero.

Judged on his teaching influence, Cousin occupies a foremost place in the rank of professors of philosophy, who like Jacobi, Schelling and Dugald Stewart have united the gifts of speculative, expository and imaginative power.

It was not until he was appointed secretary in 1837 of the newly created of education of Massachusetts ( the first such position in the United States ) that he began the work which was to place him in the foremost rank of American educationists.

His well-known essay on the nature and moral influence of heathenism ( 1822 ) was published by Neander, with high commendation, in his Denkwürdigkeiten ; and his Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans ( 1824 ) secured him a foremost place amongst the most suggestive, if not the most accurate, Biblical interpreters of that time.

Its loss involved that of many hundreds of dainty lyrics, including those of Campion, and it was due to the work of A. H. Bullen ( see bibliography ), who first published a collection of the poet's works in 1889, that his genius was recognized and his place among the foremost rank of Elizabethan lyric poets restored.

After six months in office, during which he showed his political opponents moderation and tact, he resigned his portfolio, ostensibly because he disapproved of the confiscation of the Orleans property but really because Napoleon, influenced by Morny's rivals, resented his claim to a foremost place in the government as a member of the Bonaparte family.

In philosophy, Collins takes a foremost place as a defender of Necessitarianism.

He gained for himself a foremost position amongst the investigators of ancient chronology, and his name occupies a place by the side of those of Ideler and Mommsen.

In his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, Pope Pius XI stated: " the spirit of expiation or reparation has always had the first and foremost place in the worship given to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ".

His Poesías ( 1840 ) and another volume of lyrics, Luz y tinieblas ( 1842 ), are comparatively minor ; but the versification of his plays, and his power of analysing feminine emotions, give him a foremost place among the Spanish dramatists of the 19th century.

The record of achievement won Wilson a firm place in American history as one of the nation's foremost liberal reformers.

As a playwright, his method was almost crude and rude in the headlong straightforwardness of its energetic simplicity ; as an artist in character, his interest was intense but narrow, his power magnificent but confined ; as a dramatic poet, the force of his genius is great enough to ensure him an enduring place among the foremost of the followers of Shakespeare.

Without his co-operation Pitt could not, or would not proceed, and Temple absolutely refused to take office even in the foremost place.

North was named by Wilhelm Roscher as one of the triumvirate of the 17th century English school of economists to the foremost place in Europe, the others being John Locke and William Petty.

Although Ludwig van Beethoven's cycle An die ferne Geliebte ( To the Distant Beloved ) had been published earlier, in 1816, Schubert's two cycles hold the foremost place in the history of the genre.

In the last three decades de Munt / la Monnaie, has regained its place amongst the foremost opera houses in Europe thanks to the efforts of the successive directors Gérard Mortier and Bernard Foccroulle and music directors Sylvain Cambreling and Antonio Pappano.

One of the foremost practitioners of playing from either flank was the German winger, Jürgen Grabowski, whose flexibility helped Germany to fourth place in the 1970 World Cup, and a championship in the 1974 World Cup.

“ Not long after Simrock published the D major Symphony, performances were taking place in half a dozen different countries, and generally the new work was so well received as to contribute greatly towards establishing Dvořák as one of the foremost composers of his generation .”

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

Chances became one of the foremost glass makers in the world, pioneering the use of glass in items such as UV Lens ( optics ) | lens es and glass syringe s. Another famous lighthouse Split Point Lighthouse in Australia uses a Birmingham made Fresnel lens but the factory was bombed during war-time and the essential formulae for making the unique lens crystal were lost1832: William Chance, owner of a Birmingham iron merchants, invests in his brothers failing glass works in nearby Smethwick.

His first publication was Ueber Einige Fragmente aus der Mischna des Abba Saul ( Berlin, 1876 ), in which he showed that the Mishnah collections of the foremost teachers in the period before the final redaction of the Mishnah itself, including that of Abba Saul, agreed as regards all the essential points of the Halakha.

He is also honoured as a successor to Maudgalyayana, the Buddha's disciple foremost for his supernatural attainments.

Serena is a Scholar first and foremost and not really adept at combat, acting as a support character to the others using her supernatural senses, resilience and the powers over the Dead to aid the party.

The church is the foremost example of the Charismatic movement in Sweden, closely related to Word of Faith, and it may be viewed as a Swedish expression similar to Pentecostal elements in American Christianity.

Also, most remaining Catholic elements of Swedish society were wiped out, and Sweden became one of the foremost advocates of Protestantism, not least important during the Thirty Years ' War.

Bouglé was one of French anthropologist Louis Dumont's foremost inspirations when it came to seeing Indian castes ( in the spirit of the Annee Sociologique ) not just as elements making up a whole, but forming an ideological system ( that of the Varnas, not the numerous Jatis ) that in meaning and scope surpasses the sum of the elements.

The foremost method makes use of 3D information of key elements of the body parts in order to obtain several important parameters, like palm position or joint angles.

Lt. Col. Cole was personally leading his battalion in forcing the last 4 bridges on the road to Carentan when his entire unit was suddenly pinned to the ground by intense and withering enemy rifle, machinegun, mortar, and artillery fire placed upon them from well-prepared and heavily fortified positions within 150 yards of the foremost elements.

For two years, in a Western Europe where revolutionary elements were seeking a road to revolution to provide decisive aid to the USSR, the Sinistra-led CPI was the foremost edge of the politics of “ Bolshevism, A Plant for Every Clime .” Amongst the trade unions, it carried out a strenuous campaign to construct a real united front-not of parties-of the working masses whatever their political loyalties ; it fought no less strenuously against social-democratic reformism that misled the workers with its illusory pacifism and legalism ; it openly confronted fascism, which it described as the reaction of industrial and agrarian capital to a worldwide economic crisis and the militancy of the proletariat, and not a feudal phenomenon as would be averred later by Stalinists ; it built a defensive military apparatus against reaction and did not have to rely on such organizations as the “ Arditi del Popolo ”, a formation of spurious and uncertain nature ; and during all those years marked by the reflux of the postwar revolutionary wave, the party maintained an international and internationalist stance, criticizing from the outset the rise of localism or autonomous actions and, above all else, the moves subordinating the International itself to Russian national needs.

According to musicians themselves, the etymology of the term dastgāh is associated with “ the position ( gāh ) of the hand ( dast ) the neck of the instrument ,” The Persian term dastgah can be translated as " system ," and dastgāh is then " first and foremost a collection of discrete and heterogeneous elements organized into a hierarchy that is entirely coherent though nevertheless flexible.

Because Islam is a religion that focuses very heavily on learning the central text of the Qur ' an, and because Islamic culture has historically tended towards discouraging or prohibiting figurative art, calligraphy became one of the foremost of the arts.

The first and foremost influence was the adoption of Christianity as the empire's official religion by its founder Constantine I.

Theology stands in contrast to the philosophy of religion and religious studies in that, generally, the scholar is first and foremost a believer employing both logic and scripture as evidence.

Táhirih is considered one of the foremost women of the Bábí religion and an important figure in its development.

He was a 20th century pioneer in the philosophy of religion, one of the foremost analysts of the concept " good ," and a distinguished contributor to justificatory theorizing about punishment.

" Nonetheless, he noted that Where Witchcraft Lives was also historically inaccurate, because " she diffidently interpreted the facts that she was revealing within the framework supplied by the foremost contemporary academic expert in the early modern trials, Margaret Murray ", whose theories that Early Modern witchcraft was a surviving pre-Christian religion, have subsequently been disproved and dismissed by historians.

These dealt first and foremost with religion and mythology.

He was Italy's foremost scholar of the East, with such diverse research interests ranging from ancient Iranian religion to Chinese philosophy.

The Cult of Sigmar is now the foremost religion in the Empire and is inextricably intertwined with the political, cultural, and national identity of the Empire and its people.

This universalism comes from the idea that Islam is first and foremost a monotheistic religion, and that all who believe in one God and one humanity should be free to exchange ideas and learn from each other.

In his 1909 autobiography Recollections, Gladden wrote that he wanted to practice as a minister " a religion that laid hold upon life, and proposed first and foremost, to realise the Kingdom of God in this world.

The foremost symbolist composer was Alexander Scriabin who in his First Symphony praised art as a kind of religion.