(a.) First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(2) Foremost among the predisposing factors were measles (25%), empyema thoraxis (17%), and unconsciousness (13%).
(3) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(4) The inhibition of the synthesis of cellular macromolecules and of the function of nuclear enzymes points to the fact that it is the nucleus that is first and foremost attacked.
(5) He said: “China is first and foremost a football country.
(6) The diet of pre-school children in this region of Kenya consists foremost of maize and milk.
(7) Over the past 40 years her voice has been marked, first and foremost, by a supreme intellectual confidence, a tone evident from the first line of the first essay (Notes on Camp) that made her name in 1964: "Many things in the world have not been named.
(8) First and foremost, if there are living victims of torture who seek redress from the British government they must be treated with dignity, no matter how long ago those abuses occurred.
(9) Domestic violence is not driven by anger, first and foremost.
(10) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(11) It is suggested that first and foremost in complicated diabetic pregnancy strict normoglycemia should be adhered to prior and all through pregnancy.
(12) "First and foremost I want some sort of apology to me and my family."
(13) Foremost among these is a modification of the cell wall from an undulating structure to one which is smooth and has become enlarged.
(14) We hope there is a post-Commonwealth Games glow with the home nations doing so well, but first and foremost it is an entertainment show."
(15) "A dear friend, and Sweden's foremost foreign correspondent, was gunned down in Kabul today," said Swedish columnist Jenny Nordberg.
(16) The present review is first and foremost a tribute to Monroe Eaton and his colleagues for their trail-blazing discovery of a major cause of the atypical pneumonia syndrome and their steadfast vision of its importance.
(17) Medicine is deeply related to other practical knowledges studying human conduct, foremost of which is Ethics, underlying all medical acts.
(18) Ted Green, Britain's foremost ancient tree expert, said: "Man's passion for ancient trees is boundless, touching all walks of life, professions and classes, and is a continuous thread throughout history.
(19) This sort of description of our patients implies that they are, first and foremost, people, and that their disease is yet another aspect of their inherently complex lives.
(20) But, first and foremost, we need to go to Stamford Bridge and win.
Forward
Definition:
(n.) An agreement; a covenant; a promise.
(adv.) Alt. of Forwards
(a.) Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.
(a.) Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty.
(a.) Ardent; eager; earnest; in an ill sense, less reserved or modest than is proper; bold; confident; as, the boy is too forward for his years.
(a.) Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for season; as, the grass is forward, or forward for the season; we have a forward spring.
(v. t.) To help onward; to advance; to promote; to accelerate; to quicken; to hasten; as, to forward the growth of a plant; to forward one in improvement.
(v. t.) To send forward; to send toward the place of destination; to transmit; as, to forward a letter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(5) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(6) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
(7) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(8) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
(9) Genetical analysis revealed that resistance to trimethoprim resulted from forward mutations at separate loci rather than back mutations of rad 6 or rad 18 alleles.
(10) We put forward the hypothesis that the agglutinability in acriflavine, together with the PAGE profile type II, may be associated with particular structures responsible for virulence.
(11) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(12) We now look forward to a judicial process which will apply impartial analysis and clear legal standards."
(13) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
(14) The M(r) values for all fractions and the relative electrophoretic mobility in the forward direction were determined.
(15) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(16) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
(17) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
(18) By using increased feed-forward gain in a sampled-data control model we simulated the pattern of macrosaccadic oscillation.
(19) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(20) This workshop highlighted the progress that has been made since 1909, the year that Ignatowski put forward that animal proteins in the diet can induce atherosclerosis in rabbits.