The old word used to be "pre-eminent"; now the word "outstanding" is used.
The assessment of the prisoner's current level of risk is the pre-eminent factor in determining whether he/she may be granted parole.
During this period, even though sugar did not hold a pre-eminent place, an expanding domestic market and a favourable tax policy for cane plantations stimulated investments in primitive milling technology.
Whereas in the earlier work the semantics of language were underscored as pre-eminent, with the computer-typed font it is the syntax of language that becomes most significant.
In the writer's opinion these stand pre-eminent among the fumigants, although hydrocyanic acid possesses the higher lethal effect, whether evolved by the liquid method or by exposing calcium cyanide.
This contrasts in some measure with some work in ' cognitive semantics ' which seems to focus more on the pre-eminent role of conceptualization for language.
It was restored to its pre-eminent was restored to its pre-eminent position when the monarchy was position when the monarchy was itself restored in 1660.
In fact the new nature is therefore the pre-eminent product of the late twentieth-century landscape, as a fully planned and controllable cultural construction.