outmost

"We will do our outmost to bring all stranded people back before Christmas."

It added: “Continuity in office is of outmost importance.”

The Italian Coast Guard said in a statement that it had “immediately verified that the Libyan Coast Guard was aware of the event within their search and rescue area, ensuring the outmost collaboration.”

“We did our outmost to save their lives, to give them food, support and now they want to destroy this company,” he said.

Such summertime tempests, he knows, are bittersweet: Though dangerous, they also help peel away the terrain's outmost skin of dirt and rock to reveal the buried quarry he seeks.