When the office of Grand Wizard was created and its duties defined, it was explicitly provided that he should have "the power to determine questions of paramount importance, and his decision shall be final.
The Grand Wizard had been invested with the power to determine questions of paramount importance to the interests of the order.
The transportation of the ocean mails, with the greatest possible advantage to the important interests of the country at large, is an object of paramount importance; but which, however desirable, can only be effected at great expense.
The results of imprudence and abuse, in matters of eyesight, are so disastrous, especially during school life, that the question of short sight becomes one of paramount importance.
It is, therefore, of paramount importanceto rightly exercise every part of the body, and this without undue effort or injurious strain.
The Queen must write to Lord Aberdeen on a subject which at this moment appears to her of paramount importance--viz.
She takes a deep and natural interest in the welfare of her Indian Empire, and must consider the selection of the fittest person for the post of Governor-General as of paramount importance.
In the case of the general government, the comparative safety of the system of checks and balances was of paramount importance, because the despotic exercise of its vast powers would have wrecked the whole American political system.
If the American people are not getting a "Square Deal," it must mean that they are having the cards stacked against them; and in that case the questions of paramount importance are: Who are stacking the cards?
The proposed definition may seem to be both vague and commonplace; but it none the less brings with it practical consequences of paramount importance.
The recent outbreak of anti-militarism is probably merely another illustration of the increasing desire of the French bourgeois for personal security, and the opportunity for personal enjoyment.
It should seek, on the contrary, to preserve them, just in so far as they continue to remain efficient; but it should at the same time seek the better distribution of the fruits of this efficiency.
The creation and circulation of a healthy Christian literature has always been recognized by our missions as a work of paramount importance.
He, with his council in London, has the final word in Indian matters of paramount importance.
The training of suitable native agents for this work is a duty of paramount importance; and the training must be continued through their life by the presence of the missionary to guide, restrain and inspire.
A good ear is of paramount importance in a first-class facility for acquiring and using a modern vernacular.
This may prove nothing else but that lime is of paramount importance in the building up of bone, and that bone in the period of rapid development is amenable to a great many influences.
But in those cases where disease of the respiratory organs and of the bronchial glands can be excluded the general symptomatology becomes of paramount importance.
Local treatment is of paramount importance, and alone capable of arresting the extension of the process of mortification.
If man is to participate in the movement of the universe and bring the spiritual into full operation in himself, this autonomy of the spiritual life is of paramount importance.
We can no longer doubt man's capacity of aspiring to values far beyond external possessions; and his inner life, the development of his own individual personality may become a matter of paramount importance to him.
Rest and peaceful surroundings are of paramount importance to the nervous child, and he should be left alone to amuse himself several hours each day.
Of paramount importance is the pasteurization of milk during the summer months, as mentioned elsewhere.
Testimony in support of the statement that training in speaking is of paramount importance in all careers might be adduced from a score of sources.
In the life of today, which emphasizes so markedly the two ideas of individuality and efficiency, argumentation is of paramount importance.
In intricate explanation, in close reasoning, in matters of paramount importance, it should be employed.
And in submission to the policy of the law and its fortifying prohibitions the public interest is of paramount importance.
If the subject of self-respect appears to be harped on to some extent, it is because it is of paramount importance, its influence affecting not only the worker and his employer, but the whole community.
A Christian nation should make it an object of paramount importance to diffuse the light of that Gospel, in which it has itself for ages rejoiced as the best gift, the holiest privilege, it enjoys at the hands of God.
The latter circumstance is of paramount importance, and the Revolutionary Democracy took full advantage of this procedure in all its attempts at law-making.
In a Democracy whose chief strength is derived from an intelligent public opinion, the sharpening of such intelligence and enlargement of general knowledge concerning affairs of common concern are of paramount importance.
This outline of a large, complex, and unsolved problem of paramount importanceis very inadequate.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paramount importance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
