Sentences with 'paramount'
Example sentences and phrases with the word paramount and other words derived from it.
• « Plato believed that the education of a future leader was of paramount importance, perhaps even more important than that leader's ability to lead armies. »
• « Long before I was stricken with cancer, when I interacted with people, I had a sense that something was missing in their lives; something of paramount importance. I was trying to put the Republican Party in a position to take advantage of that lack. But I wasn't quite sure what that "something" was. My illness helped me to understand that that "something" was precisely what I lacked: a little love for my fellow man; a lot of brotherhood. »
• « Locke's political philosophy had an enormous impact on future generations of colonists and established the paramount importance of representation in government. »
• « The Declaration, written primarily by Jefferson, included a long list of grievances against King George III and established the basis of American government as a republic in which the consent of the governed would be paramount. »