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Example sentences for "first importance"

  • Removal of the etiological factor is of first importance.

  • Attention to proper feeding and hygiene is of first importance.

  • In herpes about the genitalia cleanliness is of first importance.

  • Therefore we hasten to declare, not recognizing that story was of first importance in Shakespeare's day, that because this act is not focused on Macbeth or Hamlet the act in question clogs the general movement.

  • Unity of action is, then, of first importance in story.

  • I regard his uplift of first importance to the present welfare and destiny of America.

  • The scope of the Federal jurisdiction is of first importance, because the water-power problem is, in the main, a National one.

  • It is therefore of first importance to understand our relationship as trustees toward these public resources.

  • Vessels thus associated with important ceremonial customs of savages would naturally be of first importance in their sepulchral rites.

  • The antiquity of the relics themselves is not, however, of first importance; the art ideas embodied in them have a much deeper interest.

  • As this orb is known to be an object of first importance in the economy of life--the source of light and heat--it is naturally an object of veneration among many primitive peoples.

  • Social Quarantine is of first importance because a strict recognition of it applied to children during the habit-forming period of their growth will render greatest aid to morals and religion and also to health.

  • In the first place, and of first importance, I understand that rapid growth and a somewhat unsettled population has found the city unprepared for the care of all the small children.

  • The ordinary skirt, supposed to be a necessary part of feminine apparel, Is in its nature an evil of first importance.

  • Therefore, in the general scheme of blood purification an active alimentary canal is of first importance.

  • In 786 Haroun-al-Raschid became Caliph at Bagdad, and he and his son made it an intellectual center of first importance.

  • Digest to western Europe, and thus made a new contribution of first importance to the list of possible higher studies.

  • Far to the eastern end of the Mediterranean there had long lived a branch of the Semitic race, which had developed a national character and made a contribution of first importance to the religious thought of the world.

  • Deep and frequent plowing, preferably in the fall so that the weathering of the winter may be felt deeply and strongly, is of first importance in liberating plant-food.

  • Of the physical agencies, temperature changes are first in order of time, and perhaps of first importance.

  • We cannot deny the truth that the things of the spirit are of first importance; but when it comes to living we seem to belie our convictions.

  • As a symptom of the Republican panic, as a cause increasing that panic, he was of first importance.

  • To the man of the near horizon in 1860 neither of these features seemed of first importance.

  • It appears that his ancestral gods, worshipped at an altar in his own house, where of first importance.

  • In considering the family life, the position accorded to woman and the marriage laws and regulations are of first importance.

  • Among the sources elsewhere obtained, the records of contemporaneous nations are of first importance.

  • His conclusions are drawn entirely from the revelations of old monuments and remains, and are of first importance.

  • It is their material that is of first importance, otherwise they would learn so to subordinate their material as to support and disclose their idea.

  • His father was a man of artistic predilections, and in easy circumstances, so that the choice of a bread-winning profession for the son was not of first importance.

  • Thus we see that it cannot truly be said of him and his followers that the idea is of first importance to them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first importance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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