How To Use Above all In A Sentence
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These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.
The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
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And I repeat what I said beforethat in my experience the B.B.C. is relatively truthful and, above all, has a responsible attitude towards news and does not disseminate lies simply because they are newsy.
As I Please
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The congress believes that the excavation of an interoceanic canal at sea level, so desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation, is feasible; and that, in order to take advantage of the indispensable facilities for access and operation which a channel of this kind must offer above all, this canal should extend from the Gulf of Limon to the Bay of Panama.
The Path Between the Seas
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And this, to my mind, is his distinctive failing as a writer: that he has exalted charm and mannerliness above all else.
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Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
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Excepting his quaint epithets which he affects to render literally from the Greek, a language above all others blest in the happy marriage of sweet words, and which in our language are mere printer's compound epithets -- such as quaffed divine
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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Above all, lots of protection, such as having a personal posse of bodyguards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cosmic symbol of the rising sun expresses the universality of God above all particular places and yet maintains the concreteness of divine revelation.
Ignatius Insight Article on Restoring Ad Orientem
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Above all put a rigorous, rich language back at the centre of political discourse.
Times, Sunday Times
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The touch of ice wine lends the drink the slightest honeyed, apricot sort of nose, but doesn't interfere with the brisk essence of the classic martini, which is, above all, dry.
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Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness.
Henrik Ibsen
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For Puritanism was, above all else, a Bible movement.
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Above all else, the Monte Carlo Rally is so legendary because of how difficult it is to finish, let alone win.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Above all, she has the confidence to slow the narrative tempo down almost to zero: a condition of stasis in which the moment is held, like a musical note, for as long as she wishes it.
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I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
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The substantive points I was making above all remain valid either way.
Matthew Yglesias » People Hate Congress, Like Obama
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We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most.
Moll Flanders
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Even when talking in the most restrained of voices, Hugo's lilt would still rise up above all others.
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He was a career diplomat who put protocol above all else.
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Christian's works are secretive yet allusive, related yet solitary and, above all, tactile and handmade.
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Thus, the liver ranks above all others as an organ of excretion, that is, it separates material of no further use to the body.
A Practical Physiology
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We are looking for telephoners, people with teaching skills, cooks, and above all, those who like to be welcoming.
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Our goods compete in terms of product quality, reliability and above all variety.
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He promoted the Virgin as its protectress, commissioning a hymn in her honour, and incurred criticism from Bruno of Querfurt for ‘favouring the Roman people above all others with money and honours'.
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But though this darkness were wholly removed, there is another darkness, that ariseth not from the want of light, but from the excessive superabundance of light — _caligo lucis nimiæ_, (240) that is, a divine darkness, a darkness of glory, such an infinite excess and superplus of light and glory, above all created capacities, that it dazzles and confounds all mortal or created understandings.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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As a complete man, constant, generous, full of honest courage, as a hardy follower of Thought wherever she might lead him, above all, as a confessor of that Truth which is forever revealing itself to the seeker, and is the more loved because never wholly revealable, he is an ennobling possession of mankind.
Among My Books First Series
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Above all, the female body was assumed to be moulded, enclosed: all openings sealed, all passage denied.
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Piff, and Mrs. Sniff, was unanimous opposed to her going; for, as they says to Our Missis one and all, it is well beknown to the hends of the herth as no other nation except Britain has a idea of anythink, but above all of business.
Mugby Junction
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Above all, his writings and his leadership made him the undoubted doyen of British railway historians.
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Above all, he turned the wanton cruelty of the natural world into clothes of exquisite beauty, season after season.
Times, Sunday Times
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A good secretary needs to be efficient, and above all diplomatic.
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Don't take a larger craft than you can handle, and, above all, don't take a lateener; they're fine craft when they have
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
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Above all, investors need to focus on the maths rather than the drama or poetry of political knockabout.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is grit, above all else, that will provide the antidote.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the trophy pursued above all others is currently not accepting freebies.
Times, Sunday Times
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This duplication may either be accounted for on the theory of chorisis above alluded to, or by supposing that the extra corolline whorl is due to a series of confluent petalodic stamens; that the latter is the true explanation, in certain cases at least, is shown by some flowers of
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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But above all, he needs to deliver a dramatic and lasting shake-up of the entire political system.
The Sun
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He must try to explain to them that Sylvie's suicide was above all an appropriate finale to her life.
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Above all, he liked working with conductors who were clear about their intentions - if not they would receive short shrift.
Times, Sunday Times
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One computer manufacturer towers above all the rest.
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But above all, we have seen people dying, heard people sobbing their last words.
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Either they have no idea what is at stake, or they place pettifogging bureaucracy above all else.
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The bond which above all others had prevented a general application of the Berzelius theory is now commonly known as the covalent bond.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 - Presentation Speech
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While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things.
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This, by which the gods are divine, must be the oldest God of them all: and our own soul is of that same Ideal nature, so that to consider it, purified, freed from all accruement, is to recognise in ourselves that same value which we have found soul to be, honourable above all that is bodily.
The Six Enneads.
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Floating above all the ripe red berries is a whiff of wood smoke.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above all, he must be seen by all political groupings to be unaligned and impartial.
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If the owner's froideur doesn't deter you, this 10-room semi-troglodyte hotel overlooking the vineyards of Saumur-Champigny has a lot to offer: a charming site; thematically decorated rooms; and, above all, a dramatic heated swimming pool carved into the rock of its own troglodyte cave.
Soul Food
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This was a failure of policy, management, capability, and above all, a failure of imagination.
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The hope, he felt, lay in incipient black militancy, in latent white decency, and, above all, in education.
A Man From Mars
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The debate should proceed from the premise that adult education must above all be a vehicle for enhancing adultness.
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Getting a nomination for a World Technology Award was overwhelming, and to have been designated a finalist is abundantly above all I could have asked for.
Tiny Projector Enters the Big Show | Impact Lab
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In the end the novels and stories of Henry James stand above all this folderol.
The Afterlife of the Lion
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These appealed to the bright but intellectually lazy prince, who grew to hold military and martial values above all others.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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Health and strength is above all gold.
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But above all, this was a loyal speech.
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Above all, Byrd has decried the cowardice of Congress in its acceptance of the wholesale repudiation of the US Constitution.
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Near the middle and off to the side, staring up with an expression of friendliness, excitement, and, above all, hope.
Freefall
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Above all, war is rejuvenating, and journalism is the only métier in which you can remain an eternal adolescent - if you survive.
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What all these opportunist groups oppose, above all, is any independent role for the working class.
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The movement promotes homemade, handmade food, biodiversity, sustainability - and, above all, taking the time to savor good food at the table.
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While Luther was still hidden in the Wartburg, the first iconoclastic rioters entered his own church in Wittenberg in January 1522 to tear down and destroy the paintings, statues and above all, the crucifixes.
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She was of a burnt sorrel hue, with a little mixture of dapple-grey spots, but above all she had horrible tail; for it was little more or less than every whit as great as the steeple-pillar of St. Mark beside Langes: and squared as that is, with tuffs and ennicroches or hair-plaits wrought within one another, no otherwise than as the beards are upon the ears of corn.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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It is above all to the drumbeat of Wilsonian idealism that American foreign policy has marched since his watershed presidency, and continues to march to this day.
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Hempel was a career diplomat who put protocol above all else.
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Although it is somewhat limited in its applications it is easy to operate and above all it is fun.
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But how," inquired he, turning to Monteith, "did you happen to be in Ayr at this period? and how, above all, amongst the slaughtered Southrons at the palace?
The Scottish Chiefs
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They couldn't sing or dance that well, they weren't too pretty, and above all they were a manufactured band - pah!
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She's willful, quiet, and stubborn, but, above all, passionate.
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It was above all the smile of dramatic irony, of those who have privileged information.
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Two or three years 'growth will raise these plants above all grass and low vegetation, and a sprinkling of laurel, rhododendron, hardy ferns and a few intermingling colonies of native wild flowers such as bloodroot, false Solomon's seal and columbines for the East, as
Studies of Trees
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Love which was implied in Christ's engagement to "baptise" all His followers "with fire," and the services should above all else, be such as would ensure the immediate conversion to God of all who came under their influence.
The Authoritative Life of General William Booth
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The one medicine that in every grade of society was valued above all others was Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.
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Above all, she could not understand why, since she had acquaintances in the family, and since the Dame Glendinning had always paid her multure and knaveship duly, the said lass of the mill had not come in to rest herself and eat a morsel, and tell her the current news of the water.
The Monastery
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Elsewhere there were wonderful moments of limpidity – as the first movement reaches its development, and in the intermezzo above all.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra – review
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Jones, allowed a free run at goal, leapt above all-comers to nod into the corner.
West Ham United spring to life to overrun Stoke City in extra-time
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Die-ing is intended to dramatize this above all: there is nothing to fear, there is no failure.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry.
Editor’s Preface to Notes
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The bunches of unripe berries picked from this parasitical climber of betel, palm and mango trees are dried in the sun to become peppercorn, the spice that was valued above all others.
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The installation is, above all, a mass-cultural version of individual flanerie, as described by Benjamin, and therefore a place for the emergence of the aura, for 'profane illumination'.
Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest
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Put the personal details aside: Every president is, above all, a politician.
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He knows the geology and botany, can describe all that creeps and crawls, bounds and flies and, above all, is able and willing to share his enthusiasms.
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Twenty minutes later, his foot on the head of a very large, very red, and above all very dead dragon while the crowd cheered and threw confetti, Edwin spied a familiar figure staggering towards him in battered armour.
Squired-Up
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But Napoleon was above all a dynast and conqueror: what he required from subject territories was men and money.
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The source of that class was the corrupt decision to sell off the state's assets (above all in energy and minerals) at giveaway prices and without open competition, in return for huge kickbacks.
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Clear use of colour is also important. Above all else, the chart should: 1.
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She saw the animals in the marshes, the herds of caribou that are, above all creatures, natives and habitants of the snow-swept mountains, the little, lesser hunters such as marten and mink and otter.
The Snowshoe Trail
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Franklin Roosevelt spoke fluent French and German and worked to create the United Nations, but no one doubted that his allegiance was to America above all.
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How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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The Bedu for their part see themselves as guardians of Arab virtues, like loyalty, physical courage, and, above all, generosity.
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Above all, I remember the overwhelming sense of defeatism and moral chaos that pervaded public discourse.
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One in 30 people over the age of 65 is likely to suffer from cataracts and surveys show older people fear loss of vision above all other incapacities.
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Even a religion that stresses faith above all else seeks evidence to confirm its hypotheses.
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'And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things.
The Story of the Volsungs
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For when we are deeply mournful discordant above all others is the voice of mirth.
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Above all, people must feel safe, and that means economic policy must not come first.
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Above all, the system is destructive of faith, having a tendency to substitute passive acquiescence for real conviction; and therefore I should not say that the excess of it was popery, but that it had once and actually those characters of evil which we sometimes express by the term popery, but which may be better signified by the term idolatry; a reverence for that which ought not to be reverenced, leading to a want of faith in that which is really deserving of all adoration and love.
The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
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Above all, parking must be immediately accessible to functions and must not involve crossing roads or car parks.
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Bitsy Rowan taped up signs in the barn, requesting that no one use scented lotions, shampoos, or—above all—perfume, because her saddlebred, Heathcliff, had sensitive sinuses.
The God of Animals
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What did disappear for good were those public spaces that had played such an important role in the civic life of a Roman city: forum, baths, circus, theatres, amphitheatres, and, above all, places of pagan cult.
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A Conservative MP, he maintained in the 1920s that Conservatism was "above all things a spirit, not an abstract doctrine."
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What did disappear for good were those public spaces that had played such an important role in the civic life of a Roman city: forum, baths, circus, theatres, amphitheatres, and, above all, places of pagan cult.
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Above all, also be the most important, anthropologic scholar should enter means according to studying content chooses.
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It was ill conceived and poorly planned, above all because the Allies had little knowledge of the terrain.
Times, Sunday Times
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But above all, his mistake was to assume that he had done enough to win simply by being competent in office and by bequeathing a healthy economy.
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Above all, we need these strategies to be directed by a national government focused constantly on the task, not just whenever a media opportunity arises.
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But above all the grand themes of Bacon's phi - losophy — the criticism of tradition, the idea of prog - ress, the revaluation of technology, the project of a history of the arts — were to inspire some of the chief spokesmen of European thought.
BACONIANISM
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Stevie Wonder, whom the label discovered when he was 11; Marvin Gaye, who wanted so much to be a jazz crooner before he came into his own in the late 60's; and, above all, Diana Ross, whom the label put its stake in early on, and who was told so many times that she was a star that she drove off one of the Supremes before quitting to launch a solo career.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. Che Guevara
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Twelve years into the new century, the traditional Scottish family of ma, pa and the wean or weans will be outnumbered by men living alone, also by women living alone, and above all by two adults without children.
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The pure and fine essential qualities of the voices, the dizzying harmonies, the fugal calls and responses, the strange relief of the unisons, and above all the free, natural mien of the singers, proudly aware that they were producing something beautiful that could not be produced more beautifully, conscious of unchallenged supremacy, -- all this enfevered him to an unprecedented and self-astonished enthusiasm.
Clayhanger
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And above all, he has replaced his father's courtesy and good graces with an almost proud rudeness and scorn for others.
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Literary romanticism, of which Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael were the harbingers, owed its existence to a longing for a greater fulness of thought, a greater intenseness of feeling, a greater appropriateness and adequateness of expression, and, above all, a greater truth to life and nature.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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GAM based its perspective above all on the possibility of winning great power backing for an independent statelet.
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But then it was pretty easy; be careful, don't overtighten the nuts, and above all else, be careful.
Home Theater Forum
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Instead, cleverness is a honed skill that takes time, dedication and above all, a commitment to cultivate an appreciation for not only doing the least amount of work possible, but also the ability to pick the least amount of work possible that will also afford the most leverage in actually solving the problem.
The Fried Henderson and the value of being clever | FactoryCity
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Above all, they're a great live band - though they have issued a brace of superb albums - and they've become a popular headline act across Britain and Europe.
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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. George Sand
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Proof structures and topology, and above all the beautiful, crystalline logic which ordered the universe of number.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The stylised look of the film might be off-putting to those who demand photorealism above all in their special effects work, but anyone with the slightest affection for pulp SF serials or comics will be in seventh heaven.
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What was needed therefore was a superlative comeback - original, clever without pretentiousness and above all very funny.
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Henceforth, my friend," said he, "moderate your zeal in hurrying others to the gallows; be not too certain of your own safety, even though you should have the law on your side; and, above all, take care how you play off your schoolcraft another time upon an old soldier.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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My grandmother was a strong woman, she was my guardian, my protector, my shield against those who would wish to see me fail and I thank her for loving me above all others.
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An ancient philosophy that preaches non-preachiness, practices as little as possible, and above all, uh ... lost my train of thought there.
The Church of the Latter-Day Dude
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Thames -- old Religious Houses for the most part, now disguised and pulled about beyond recognition, ranging right and left from the Ludgate itself: behind these rose again towers and roofs, and high above all the tall spire of the Cathedral, as if to gather all into one, culminant aspiration ....
Come Rack! Come Rope!
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If there was one thing punks despised above all else, it was a hippie.
Times, Sunday Times
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While urban protests were encouraged by the Communists, Fenby writes, they were ‘above all, a sign of war-weariness and alienation from a regime that had nothing more to offer.’
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She is above all patriotic and endowed with practical common sense.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prolonged attacks of dyspepsia, nervous headaches, chronic granular kidney disease, gout, sciatic rheumatism, middle ear abscesses, above all vertigo and gall stone colic were intermittent or chronic ailments that gradually made him the typical embodiment of a supersensitively nervous, prematurely old man.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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So this week we salute Valentine: tinker, tailor, soldier, priest and, above all, patron saint of card manufacturers.
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Above all, this meant plantation agriculture, producing staple crops for export with slave labour.
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But, for the Cradlebow; his bright dream of seeking his fortune over wide seas and in distant lands, his dreadless enthusiasm in the belief that he should find so much waiting for him in that unsounded world, his determination, above all, to acquit himself truthfully and bravely -- all these made him, to my mind, ever an object of more inspiring and romantic interest.
Cape Cod Folks
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Lastly, over and above all, might they not plead themselves extremely scandalized, grieved, and offended at the disusage of circumcision, which they were sure was at first instituted by God, and never since
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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Science poses the question, "What are you going to believe: the dreams and fantasies of ancient mystics or your eyes, ears, telescopes, magnetic resonance imaging, hadron colliders, and above all, reason and rigorous questioning of all extraordinary claims?
Victor Stenger: The Folly of Faith
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The religion which has taught men truth -- above all things, _truth_ -- which teaches utter horror of a lie, which insists on the bare, bald reality in heaven and earth, which has taught men hatred of the false as the meanest and most unmanly thing existing -- this religion took its rise in claptrap miracles, was puffed into popularity by boasting pretensions, was born in trickery and nurtured by legerdemain!
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Ted was charismatic, playful, strong-willed, and above all, one of a kind.
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Mrs Parry said she sees her retirement as a new chapter, when she hopes to do some travelling and, above all devote more time to her granddaughters, Hannah and Rebecca.
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Then he spake to Piraeus, his trusty companion: Piraeus, son of Clytius, thou that at other seasons hearkenest to me above all my company who went with me to Pylos, even now, I pray, lead this stranger home with thee, and give heed to treat him lovingly and with worship in thy house till I come.
Book XV
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They eroticize their dependent longings, and these needs become valued above all others.
History of a Suicide
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In short, capital is the subject of production, producing above all itself, while labour is negatively posited as its sublated foundation.
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The first stanza of the anthem translates as: "Germany, Germany above all/Above all in the world.
Undefined
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Not only that, but the power is above all other principality, power, dominion, or might.
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One computer manufacturer towers above all the rest.
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Finally, his valorisation of tolerance above all other things, is all too compatible with injustice (albeit that such a notion may not have the same ring in the minds of torturers as it will in the minds of victims).
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It is the scissor work, above all, which separates the real professional from the novice.
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And then we passed into the yard and dairies, where the same benevolent worship had congregated fowl of strange and unheard-of breeds; and there was a little bonham; and above all, staring around, wonder-stricken and frightened, and with a gorgeous blue ribbon about her neck, was the prettiest little fawn in the world, its soft brown fur lifted by the warm wind and its eyes opened up in fear and wonder at its surroundings.
My New Curate
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Much of this story is familiar to specialists in the field, above all through the varied and often exhaustive archival research done in Germany over the years for each of the representative museums.
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They were oases, an escape from the weather: walled, shaded, quadripartite, which is to say divided into four and, above all, watery.
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Above all, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has found that the conversion of plastic waste into fuel is non-polluting.
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Obama is best described as a foundation-bred counterinsurgent, that is to say an operative in the service of the US financier ruling class whose task it is to wreck and abort any positive outcomes that might be forthcoming from the political ferment which is shaking the globe, and above all from the deep political upsurge which is clearly at hand in this country.
Wax Banks
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My grandfather valued order, cleanliness, and the rule of law above all else.
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The puritans of the Catholic Church, they opposed lax theology, excessive papal and episcopal power, and above all the influence of the Jesuits in Church and State.
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He abandoned the countryside above all to escape the taille, a tax to which, unlike the nobles, he would have been subject if he had continued to live in rural France.
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But he was shrewd, for he limited the number of wives by a property qualification, and becausei of which he, above all men, was favored by his wealth.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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Our goods compete in terms of product quality, reliability and above all variety.
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Vedic knowledge is infallible, above all doubts and mistakes.
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He cannot be called a caricaturist, for in his work there lacks that fierce quality of critical conception -- above all, that subject-matter that makes one think, that sardonic appeal to head and heart at once, which make up the sum of true caricature.
The History of "Punch"
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She had her uses and, above all, he trusted her judgement to keep pleasure isolated from business.
CORMORANT
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Aside from his literary and cultural contributions, I would also like to honor his strong political engagement where, as mayor of Fort-de-France for 56 years, Aimé Césaire was an example for all Antillian politicians, an example of a politician who always governed with greatness for his ideas, for his fellow citizen, for his people and above all for a common purpose.
Remembering Aim�� C��saire
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Above all put a rigorous, rich language back at the centre of political discourse.
Times, Sunday Times
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She liked him above all for his effortless charm.
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The tall building towered above all the others.
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As the day wore on there was above all a sense of congealment – and also of gathering confusion, of the impossibility of ever really understanding anything at all.
Transfer deadline day's hype is over, long live the quavering hype | Barney Ronay
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Above all, Tchaikovsky's enduring music soars with its timeless magnificence.
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What recommends his book above all else is its painstaking concentration on what is truly significant in O'Connor's symbolism.
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But Jesus announced that the kingdom of God had already begun with his own work, and those who received him in faith became sensible of this beginning; for the "apocalyptical" was not merely the unveiling of the future, but above all the revelation of God as the
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
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Above all their proconsuls and representatives must let themselves be seen and talk to the people.
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The true cause of its abscondence, as in so much else of his work, was undoubtedly that ultra-Bohemian quality of indifference which distinguished Diderot -- the first in a way, probably for ever the greatest, and, above all, the most altruistic of literary Bohemians.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Above all it is the seriousness, the consistent refusal to engage in light banter or jollity, the unflinching Puritanism (as of Elders of the Kirk), indeed the crippling shyness that strike one most forcefully nearly fifty years on.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Henry Wright, the former partner of Clarence Stein and the codesigner of Radburn, helped draft the proposal: “The need, the urgent need, now exists for a designer with a broad vision, with understanding of the life of the city and these times, and above all with unusual skill in composing buildings in relation to each other and to their natural setting and to the activities of the city.”
Makeshift Metropolis
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On the Western Front, above all, in any given battle, defenders proved able to block a breach faster than attackers could move orders or reinforcements to exploit it, thus precluding a decisive breakthrough.
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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. George Sand
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Above all, this is a zone in demographic upheaval as its youthful population races ahead of local capacities to socialise, educate and employ.
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But it was, above all, his numismatical work which established his reputation.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Our goods compete in terms of product quality, reliability and above all variety.
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There is a law above all the laws of men, the authority of which remains for ever unchangeable; and when any _human laws_ are in opposition to the _divine_, it is our duty to obey God rather than man.
The Ordinance of Covenanting
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His articulacy, coupled with his background knowledge, puts him head and shoulders above all other part-time BBC football summarisers.
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Die-ing is intended to dramatize this above all: there is nothing to fear, there is no failure.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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His pithy advice to young painters was, "Above all, keep your colours fresh.
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Health and strength is above all gold.
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Nevertheless, to recur; I cannot but observe, that these tame spirits stand a poor chance in a fairly offensive war with such of us mad fellows as are above all law, and scorn to sculk behind the hypocritical screen of reputation.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Above all, however, they developed a model of spirituality that placed much emphasis on action in the world.
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Putting to one side those aspects of ‘Egyptomania’ that saw the re-working of Pharaonic themes in the decoration of architectural works but above all in painting, it was landscape scenes that most strongly felt the influence of this world, be it for marble relief work, for the glyptic or toreutic arts, or for painting.
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Consequently the basic concepts have been division of labour, organisational structure, job descriptions, but above all - hierarchy.
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The first wore a white silk, called a polonaise, forming a flowing robe, open to the waist; the pink sash was six inches wide, and filled with spangles; the shoes and stockings were also spangled, and, above all, arose a towering head-dress, filled with a profusion of pearls and jewels; the veil was spangled, and edged with silver lace.
My Lady of Doubt
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'fellows' (as he called his horsemen), loved three things above all, namely, wine, gambling, and a pipe of Tobacco.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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It is time for British politics - the labour movement above all - to wake up to what is being done in our name.
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I once spent a very miserable year with a maths teacher who delighted in picking on me above all others.
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Let's be cautious and work in a Christianlike manner; find out by talking with people on the street and in their homes, what he said, and above all, don't let Cameron know how we feel.
That Printer of Udell's
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I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
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Health and strength is above all gold.
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Annand was invalided out of the army in 1948 and thereafter did much work for disabled people, especially the deaf, and was involved in local affairs in the north, and above all in army affairs.
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It is the bounden duty of Australia A teams above all else to cut the Poms down to size before the big stuff starts, and just for a while mid-innings today, when England got the wobbles and lost a trio of wickets for 13 runs while still a hundred or so behind the hosts, it looked as if they might manage it once more.
The Ashes 2010: Sublime Ian Bell dances to a century for England
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We must, above all, avoid involvement in the war.
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He rejected the codification of ethics into moral theories that views such as Kantianism and (above all) utilitarianism see as essential to philosophical thinking about ethics, arguing that our ethical life is too untidy to be captured by any systematic moral theory.
Bernard Williams
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I hope above all to teach young pupils who will outstep me and realize all that I foresee.
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He's showing me to be a good player but above all a good man.
The Sun
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He was also a formidable athlete, but above all a rock-like 'under-stander' in balances.
Times, Sunday Times
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I sometimes wish that I were: Socrates described himself as shameless, and argued that any true philosopher is by definition shameless, because the true philosopher loves wisdom/truth above all else, and certainly above any concern for social approval.
Shame And The Written Mom | Her Bad Mother
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Deal measures, and above all antisocialism, the fear of communism, the “Cold War,” and the hot ones in
CONSERVATISM
