first and foremost

• “Ray Anderson, the CEO of the carpet manufacturer Interface and a sustainable business pioneer, says that a full 97 percent of all the energy and material that goes into manufacturing products is wasted: “We are operating an industrial system that is, in fact, first and foremost a waste-making machine.””

  Simon & Schuster: THE STORY OF STUFF

• “Of the musical acquaintances we have to notice first and foremost Julius Fontana, who himself said that he was a daily visitor at Chopin's house.”

  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician

• “In fact, his Strict Observance was basically an alchemical network, and he himself was first and foremost an alchemist27.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Templar Revelation

• “Call her Faerie Queen, Gloriana, Astraea, Cynthia, Britomart to your heart's content she is first and foremost a politician, and not a goddess.”

  Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

• “For Sartre is first and foremost a moralist, even though his major early work L'Etre et le néant is described as an “essay in phenomenological ontology.””

  EXISTENTIALISM

• “Moreover, my colleague Khin Khlaru is, like myself, first and foremost a historian, and a man of honor and intelligence.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ishmael

• “Edmond Rabb was first and foremost a venture capitalist.”

  Fatal Care

• “Traditional marketing is first and foremost functional features-and-benefits F&B marketing.”

  Simon & Schuster: Experiential Marketing

• “We realise that if we are going to go ahead we need first and foremost SOLIDARITY.”

  Kangaroo

• “PYTHAGORAS was not merely a mathematician. he was first and foremost a philosopher, whose philosophy found in number the basis of all things, because number, for him, alone possessed stability of relationship.”

  Bygone Beliefs

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