(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.
Pas
Definition:
(n.) A pace; a step, as in a dance.
(n.) Right of going foremost; precedence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunofluorescence and immunoelectronmicroscopy experiments demonstrated that while tight junctions demarcate PAS-O distribution in confluent cultures, apical polarity could be established at low culture densities when cells could not form tight junctions with neighboring cells.
(2) On dissected mucosa stained by the PAS-alcian blue whole-mount method the density and distribution of goblet cells in various parts of the middle ear was determined in 13 children, ranging in age from 9 days to 14 years.
(3) The results showed immunostaining to function equally well on frozen and routine sections, and to be superior to Alcian Blue and PAS with regard to morphological detail.
(4) The Personality Assessment System (PAS) is derived from certain subtest scores on any Wechsler test by rather simple calculations.
(5) Acidic mucus containing goblet cells have been revealed using Alcian blue staining when added to the PAS stained cells in conditions that have previously been shown to have reduced goblet cell population when assessed by PAS-haematoxylin staining.
(6) In neutrophilous peripheral blood leucocytes of healthy and leucotic cattle the PAS reaction attained the values of ++ to +++.
(7) In the untreated sections only glycogen revealed strong PAS reaction, most mucosubstances reacted weakly or not at all.
(8) After a three-month period of rigorous training, two PAs were assigned to the ICU.
(9) Vacuolar or intraluminal binding of peanut lectin was found to be more sensitive than PAS reaction for detecting early secretory activity.
(10) Paraphilias (PAs) and non-paraphilic sexual addictions (NPSAs) may be behaviors that share a common perturbation of central serotonin neuroregulation as a component of their pathophysiology.
(11) In addition, we should carefully interpret the muscle histochemistry, because histochemical stains including PAS might be fairly normal in the defects with second step glycolytic pathway.
(12) The PAS hyperchromaticity of basement membrane material and pericyte loss occurred throughout the retinal vasculature, while while the microaneurysms and complex lesions were limited to the capillaries of the central and paracentral retina.
(13) However, pulmonary arterial pressure was the same as controls at both day 8 and day 14 in MCTP-treated rats made moderately thrombocytopenic by cotreatment with PAS.
(14) These bodies were PAS-positive and stained with MT, and They had electron-dense complex structures.
(15) Thus, in man, tear fibrinolytic activity may depend primarily on a release of PAs from conjunctival tissue.
(16) Also in some areas, the cytoplasmic processes at the distal ends of the PAs invaded the predentin.
(17) The materials positive for the PAS and PTO reactions in alveolar septa are epithelial and endothelial basal laminas, which are nonargyrophilic.
(18) In some areas, the tumor shows a striking resemblance to Kaposi's sarcoma; criss-crossing fascicles of spindle cells are interspersed with narrow vascular spaces, but PAS-positive hyaline globules are absent.
(19) Within the PGE2-protected animals a significant increase was observed in the length of zones of the mucus-producing cells at the surface and in the foveolae (both PAS-positive and alcian-blue-positive cells).
(20) Serous granules were stained by toluidine blue, or by hematoxylin and eosin (H and E), but showed little or no reaction with periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) or Alcian blue.