paramount goal

Republicans took charge of the 104th Congress with one paramount goal: a balanced budget.

That's one of my paramount goals as a manager.

But his paramount goal during that period was to plot his return to politics.

The paramount goal is to increase scores on standardized reading and math tests that start in the third grade.

Cultivating an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust should be the paramount goal.

"Our paramount goal should be to liberate Kes and escape this base."

"Our paramount goal must be to hasten the day when consumers enjoy the benefits of more competition in local and long-distance phone service."

Still, it will not be easy to change the mind-set of what has long been a family business where money in the bank was the paramount goal.

Improving the schools is Mayor Bloomberg's paramount goal, and his winning control of the system has sharply raised public expectations.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has made direct control of the school system a paramount goal, clearly wants to keep that issue front and center.

Cultivating good relations with the United States has become a paramount goal for China's leadership since Sept. 11.

It is a means of achieving the paramount goals of employment, conservation of the environment, prosperity and social cohesion.

Their paramount goal is to cultivate Viennese waltz and operetta music and carry it into the world.

The paramount goal of the talks is eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons program, but the negotiations have been complicated by a host of related issues.

Mr. Meese sent a message to families of the hostages, telling them, "The safety of your loved ones is our paramount goal."

Further, the Navy argues, the approach undermines the paramount goal of keeping forces near potential trouble spots to deter hostile acts and insure fast responses.

The reorganization positions the diocese to carry out a church mandate that care of the poor is the paramount goal of Catholic health care.

As the Commission recognized in the Waiver Order, interoperability of the public safety broadband network is a paramount goal.

The paramount goal of the United States' Haitian policy apparently is to keep out the Haitian refugees.

Raising test scores should be the paramount goal of city educators, Mr. Klein said, because they are the only uniform way of measuring student performance.

At this point, Mr. Gore's entire legal strategy is aimed at the single, paramount goal of getting the ballot counting resumed lickety-split.

Establishing Blige's niche in R&B became the paramount goal for Sean Combs.

That decision was "dull and basic," Mr. Hecht said, but adheres to a paramount goal: maximizing shareholder returns.

The group's paramount goal is the establishment of a modern Islamic state, or Caliphate, governed by shariah (Islamic law).

Although striking a bargain with hostage-takers raised eyebrows at the time, state officials defended it as a means of achieving their paramount goal: returning the Rowes to safety.