preeminent

Gates has repeatedly lauded Petraeus as “the pre-eminent soldier-scholar of his generation.”

One lesson comes to us with pre-eminent force from the operations of war.

On the contrary, chastity was a pre-eminent virtue of the samurai woman, held above life itself.

It has been seen, too, that though this is not a day of pre-eminent greatness, we can boast an astonishing industry and fertility.

A Brahmana is the embodiment of pre-eminent energy: he is also the embodiment of the highest ascetic merit.

In his marriage, as in all else, Claudius had been pre-eminent in misfortune.