before all else
Example Sentences
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Abigail reminds us that Keynes — father of macroeconomics, who’s misquoted as frequently as he’s misunderstood — “was before all else a humanist, an old-school liberal pragmatist.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023
“Time and again, he put country before self, before party, before all else — in uniform and out — and it earned him the universal respect of the American people.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 18, 2021
Maybe if they realize what they stand to lose if they insist on their right to throw Subway sandwiches out of a Honda before all else, they’ll reconsider.
From Slate • Sep. 10, 2020
These lyrics, sung throughout Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s imperishable 1979 musical, are heeded assiduously by director Kent Nicholson in a solid South Coast Repertory revival that puts the twistedly macabre story before all else.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2019
Madoc, who reminded us over and over that family came before all else.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
