Aesthetics matter, but first and foremost a language must be useful; it must allow real-world programmers to express real-world ideas succinctly and affordably.
When learning a foreign language, one has to learn, first and foremost, a new phonological system, which means acquiring a totally unfamiliar set of articulatory habits.
Every application program is first and foremost an application user.
Ukraine will disintegrate into two halves, and we want the eastern half, including of course, first and foremost, Crimea.
Indeed, she claimed through an astonishingly long life-she died in 2003, aged 101-that she was first and foremost an artist, never a Nazi propagandist.
This is, first and foremost, a crisis brought on by a runaway financial industry.
Take any workplace - small or large, corporate or local sweatshop - and what you will find, first and foremost, is a hierarchy.
And that is, first and foremost, anchor in your heart, deeper than you thought was possible. Feel all the cords.
Our resources are - first and foremost - our people.
I am confident, first and foremost, because of you; because of the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs and business owners; the tenacity of our workers; and the determination of the American people.
But Iraq is first and foremost an Arab state.
I use health books and articles to supplement my knowledge, but first and foremost I rely on my own personal experience.
"He was a clergyman, minister, first and foremost, and that was the priority," Awdry explains. "Writing stories was very much a spare-time occupation."
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