paramount
Speech parts
1. paramount - Noun
2. paramount - Adjective
3. paramount - Adjective Satellite
4. Paramount - Proper noun
Meaning
Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty.
The highest or chief.
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.