pre-eminent

• “Doug was known as a pre-eminent conservationist," he said.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Romney Environment Push Is Fresh Target for His Rivals

• “Philosophers have always been the butt of jokes, as the intellectual historian James Miller reminds us in "Examined Lives," his earnest, wistful collection of biographical sketches of a dozen pre-eminent "lovers of wisdom," from Socrates to Nietzsche.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Human, All Too Human

• “Dr. McCall has the unique expertise as a renowned artist and is a pre-eminent expert in communicating NASA Agency themes.”

  Robert McCall to Paint Armstrong Portrait - NASA Watch

• “The Act required the US to be 'pre-eminent' in space technology and to be equally responsible for disseminating information thus obtained, exempting national security interests.”

  What Civil Space Agency Would You Create? - NASA Watch

• “As long as shareholders are pre-eminent, as long as even the hint of bailouts exists, as long as the rewards for winning are so great, financial institutions will remain large risk takers, and conflicts will persist, particularly, but not exclusively, between traders and bankers.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Teitelman: Goldman Sachs, Business Standards and the Critics

• “Major League Soccer club, Toronto FC, is a non-American team football club located in Toronto, Ontario and the first Canadian team in the United States 'pre-eminent professional soccer league, Major League Soccer (MLS).”

  Toronto FC 2009/2010 team kits

• “Murphy, who is one of the country's pre-eminent tax experts, points out that a pension subsidy of this magnitude represents approximately 25% of the UK government's current annual fiscal deficit, 7% of government income, and 5.5% of government spending if repeated in the current financial year.”

  The Guardian: Boomers ignore the next generation as they gild their retirement with private pensions

• “South African author Roland Starke is given a prominent credit as all writers are in Frears's films, something that derives from his apprenticeship at the Royal Court, our pre-eminent writers 'theatre.”

  The Guardian: Britain's best film directors show some early promise

• “Indeed, were anything to make one reflexively warm to the old chancer, it is surely his having incurred the disapproval of Britain's pre-eminent paradigm of professional Yorkshire-dullard smugness.”

  The Guardian: 'Russell Brand is pointless,' says Michael Parkinson

• “Viv then became a reforming sportswriter, his unmissable weekly column establishing the Sunday Times as rugby union's pre-eminent Sabbath pulpit.”

  The Guardian: Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating

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