adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be of the utmost importance/be of paramount importance (= be extremely important )
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It is of the utmost importance that this matter is kept confidential.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The first is that the Prime Minister has always said she regards the fight against inflation as paramount .
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Alternatively, the collective good is seen as paramount , and individual freedom must be constrained to achieve that collective good.
■ NOUN
concern
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But without an enemy, can credibility really be a paramount concern ?
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Understanding how to teach the mainstreamed special learner is of paramount concern to the teacher who must do it.
consideration
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While the legal rights of all parties must be respected the welfare of the child must be the court's paramount consideration .
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Without independence, the interests of the client can not be a first and paramount consideration .
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However, this concern became a paramount consideration during the 1970s.
importance
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Anybody who knows anything about football knows confidence is of paramount importance .
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How you answer this question is a matter of paramount importance .
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The right spacing of voices and placing of intervals is therefore of paramount importance in achieving our aesthetic objectives.
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In the conventional wisdom, none the less, the balanced budget remained of paramount importance .
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The symptoms and signs are therefore of paramount importance in designing the treatment.
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His collection of Turners was of greater and paramount importance .
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Whose interests within the state are of paramount importance ?
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Stopping the epidemic is of paramount importance .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An airline spokesman stated that the safety of passengers was absolutely paramount .
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Public safety and security are matters of paramount importance.
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The patients' wishes and needs are paramount and they must always come before our own.
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While some musical ability is necessary, it is not the paramount concern.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But without an enemy, can credibility really be a paramount concern?
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For him the power of love is paramount .
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Getting a good education was paramount in my family ethos, and I should not stray from it, I decided.
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Residential considerations were paramount for about one-third of the sample.
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Steve Jobs considered the look of his products to be paramount , and his intentions with the Macintosh design were particularly ambitious.
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Two structural dimensions were of paramount importance.
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Whose interests within the state are of paramount importance?