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foremost and example
The public media are the foremost example of operating enterprises that are used in the penetrative process.
The foremost example of crusader art are perhaps the Melisende Psalter, an illuminated manuscript commissioned between 1135 and 1143 and now located in the British Library, and the sculpted Nazareth Capitals.
In his writings, Nichiren refers to his identity in a variety of ways, nevertheless always related to the Lotus Sutra, for example: " I, Nichiren, am the foremost votary of the Lotus Sutra ".. Of the many figures appearing in the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren chose his spiritual identity as that of Bodhisattva Superior Practices, and identified his goal as attaining Buddhahood: " From the beginning … I wanted to master Buddhism and attain Buddhahood ".
For example, Alabama Klansmen like Hugo Black were among the foremost advocates of better public schools, effective Prohibition enforcement, expanded road construction, and other " progressive " measures to benefit poor whites.
As such he is regarded as one of the most corrupt leaders in history and is a foremost example of kleptocracy.
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.
the foremost example is that of Shiva ( along with his aspects such as Bhairava and Mahakala, whose forehead is adorned with the crescent moon.
For example, Call of Cthulhu's foremost concern is recreating the mood of brooding horror and cosmic insignificance of the Cthulhu Mythos, and makes heavy use of illusionism to craft grisly fates for the players ' characters, thereby maintaining consistency with the source material.
This kingdom is also evidenced by numerous Celtic-type fortified hill-top settlements ( oppida ), of which Zemplin is the foremost example in south-east Slovakia.
As an example of its success it enabled a young millworker, David Livingstone, to become a famous missionary doctor and the foremost explorer of his day.
Also, while looking at one object behind another object, the foremost object's image is doubled ( for example, placing one's finger in between one's face while reading text on a computer monitor ).
His persona as the progenitor of grues and creator of monsters may be linked to his role as the creator of the games ' challenges, Infocom having long made joking references to grues ' being the foremost example of the Implementors ' capricious, sometimes nonsensical design decisions.
It is the foremost example of Roman historical relief and one of the great artistic treasures of the ancient world.
At any rate this was a period of transition between purely linear thinking in music, in which chords were incidental occurrences as a result of correct usage of intervals, and music in which the harmonic element was foremost ( for example in lighter Italian forms such as the frottola, which are homophonic in texture and sometimes have frankly diatonic harmony ).
His poetry, which is characterized by impassioned speculation, abstract sensuality, and occasionally, restrained irony, is the foremost example of Chinese new vernacular verse absorbing modern Western techniques.
Prof. Joseph R. Rudolph Jr. said in Library Journal, for example, that The Prize, " written by one of the foremost U. S. authorities on energy,.
Seoul's Namtaemun Gate Namdaemun, Korea's foremost national treasure, is perhaps the most symbolic example of this type of structure.
More recently, historians have begun to question the veracity of the report of a battle at Stalling Down ; for example, the foremost modern authority on Glyndŵr, the late R. R. Davies, made no mention of it in his meticulous account of the revolt, published in 1995.
The Following is one illustrative example, picked up from Sauptikaparva of Mahabharata, which sufficiently attests the Parama-Kamboja people as well as their foremost breed of war steeds.
" Allmovie has noted, " Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map ...
The foremost example is their ownership of the Redbox DVD rental service.

foremost and style
Starting in the 1710s he became one of the creators and the foremost exponents of the so-called German mixed style, an amalgam of German, French, Italian and Polish styles.
Andrewes was a friend of Hugo Grotius, and one of the foremost contemporary scholars, but is chiefly remembered for his style of preaching.
Today, Thoreau is regarded as one of the foremost American writers, both for the modern clarity of his prose style and the prescience of his views on nature and politics.
The original plan of the bastion fortress was strongly influenced by the ideas of Vauban, the foremost military engineer of the time, and the principles of Star Fort style of fortification, albeit adapted to a group of rocky islands.
His work borrowed heavily from the European Modern aesthetic style, of which he was the foremost exponent in the United States.
Copyrighted and released in 1941, " I'm Walking The Floor Over You " by Ernest Tubb his sixth release for Decca, helped establish the honky tonk style and Tubb as one of its foremost practitioners.
This particular scholarly style can be seen in the Jewish Encyclopedia's almost obsessive attention to manuscript discovery, manuscript editing and publication, manuscript comparison, manuscript dating, and so on ; these endeavors were among the foremost interests of Wissenschaft scholarship.
The American Neo-Gothic style campus is considered one of the foremost works of Chilean architecture.
Landini was the foremost exponent of the Italian Trecento style, sometimes also called the " Italian ars nova ".
Although, before 1933 he did not belong to the leading group of German architects, he became Hitler's foremost architect whose neo-classical style became for a time the official architecture of the Third Reich.
The Rich Kids were amongst the foremost British exponents of the power pop style, blending influences from 1960s acts such as The Small Faces and The Who with more recent punk rock sounds.
Von Ebner-Eschenbach ’ s elegance of style, her incisive wit and masterly depiction of character give her a foremost place among the German women writers of her time.
According to Rocknworld, with Orchid, Opeth " became the foremost purveyors of what would come to be known as extreme progressive metal " and " exploded on the scene with a majestic style that reinvented what progressive meant.
The estate's old château was torn down and completely rebuilt when Douat commissioned one of Bordeaux ' foremost architects, Guy-Louis Combes, to create the buildings in the First Empire style, the mansion for the Marquis to move into by 1812.
By 1892, when she published a milestone encyclopedic reference book on fly patterns -- Favorite Flies and Their Histories, Orvis had emerged as the country's foremost arbiter of fly-pattern authenticity and style.
By the mid-1850s his pictures and sculpture were overflowing his mansion on Lafayette Square and he hired the foremost architect of the day, James Renwick, to build a picture gallery in the Second Empire style on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Frostenson is one of Sweden's foremost poets, of a style both experimental and archaic.
Today, Mairéad is recognised as the leading exponent in the Donegal fiddle style, and she is often considered as one of the foremost singers in the Irish language, her native tongue.
Alessandro Vittoria ( 1525 – 1608 ) was an Italian Mannerist sculptor of the Venetian school, " one of the main representatives of the Venetian classical style " and rivalling Giambologna as the foremost sculptors of the late 16th century in Italy.

foremost and is
He is, first and foremost, a defender of public morals, a servant of society.
What Krim ignores, in his contempt for history and for accuracy, is that these magazines, Partisan foremost, brought about a genuine revolution in the American mind from the mid-thirties to approximately 1950.
First and foremost: No one -- no, not anyone -- in the family is allowed to issue blanket invitations to his or her own circle.
We are acutely aware that yours is a society which, in spite of several wars and many privations, has developed itself into one of the foremost nations of the world.
The congregation is first and foremost an economic peer group ; ;
All of these brains contain the same set of basic anatomical components, but many are rudimentary in the hagfish, whereas in mammals the foremost part ( the telencephalon ) is greatly elaborated and expanded.
Kevin Kiernan, professor of English at the University of Kentucky, is foremost in the computer digitalisation and preservation of the manuscript ( the Electronic Beowulf Project ), using fibre-optic backlighting to further reveal lost letters of the poem.
* Catullus is discussed in John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman ( 1969 ) as being one of the foremost poets of love, sexuality and desire.
Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum ( Latin, " the Prince of Mathematicians " or " the foremost of mathematicians ") and " greatest mathematician since antiquity ", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
The main body of a cannon consists of three basic extensions — the foremost and the longest is called the chase, the middle portion is the reinforce, and the closest and briefest portion is the cascabel or cascable.
*** The face is the flat vertical plane at the foremost edge of the muzzle ( and of the entire piece ).
* The reinforce: This portion of the piece is frequently divided into a first reinforce and a second reinforce, but in any case is marked as separate from the chase by the presence of a narrow circular reinforce ring or band at its foremost end.
Clement contends that while both are important, the fear of God is foremost, because through faith one receives divine wisdom.
A foremost contribution to the Christology of the Apostolic Age is that of Paul.
The polyphonic organization of different melodies to sound at the same time was still a relatively new invention then, and it is understandable that the mathematical or physical relationships in frequency that give rise to the musical intervals as we hear them, should be foremost among the preoccupations of Medieval musicians.
Few would dispute the verdict of James D. Forbes, an editor of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " His scientific glory is different in kind from that of Young and Fresnel ; but the discoverer of the law of polarization of biaxial crystals, of optical mineralogy, and of double refraction by compression, will always occupy a foremost rank in the intellectual history of the age.
The European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ; ) is the world's foremost alliance of public service media entities, comprising 74 Active Members in 56 countries and 37 Associate Members from a further 22 countries.
She is, first and foremost, the hostess of the White House.
As the foremost saint from Navarre and one of the main Jesuit saints, he is much venerated in Spain and the Hispanic countries where Francisco Javier or Javier are common male given names.
She is said to be the wife of Odin, and is the " foremost among the goddesses " and the queen of Asgard.

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