As managers' compensation has depended more on stock options, keeping the share price rising - and options in the money - has become paramount.

The "days of the giants" may have been fun, but humanistic patient care has become paramount.

Needless to say, you are outmanned and outgunned, which means that resourcefulness and strategic planning become paramount.

But you also understand that, in these situations, the needs of the organization become paramount.

For some parents, keeping guns out of schools has become paramount.

My work has become paramount.

What seems to have been happening is that the idea of attracting tourists has become paramount.

The needs of the organisation become paramount.

In a game as physical as this one was, things like cutting and screening become paramount.

And the use of the tools to expand the message and to emotionally and dramatically get it into people's minds has become paramount.