This arrangement guaranteed Johnson's paramount influence; he would remain the de facto lord of baseball until the gambling scandals of the late teens brought about the modern sole baseball commissionership.

In the ensuing Congress of Vienna, 1815, as the Russian minister, he counterbalanced the paramount influence of the Austrian minister, Prince Metternich, and insisted on French state unity under a Bourbon monarch.

It has been said that Weber did not effectively and realistically take into account geographic variation in market demand, which is considered a locational factor of paramount influence.

He was a man of paramount influence at home, for he was public spirited, he was chief of the fire department, he had an admirable command of profane language, and had killed several "parties."

She would have nothing to do with the paramount influence of England but had always tried to play a role among the nations and had, with a view to that, always coquetted with the European powers.

It was around this period in time that he became acquainted with Waylon Jennings, who he cites as "the voice," and his paramount influence.

"Germany's so-far cautious and conservative takeover practice, with the big banks exercising paramount influence, may be on the point of changing," said one analyst who asked not to be named.

Character-its paramount influence on the happiness of individuals, and the destinies of society.

Liu had a paramount influence on Yuan era city designs, and he is known to have planned both the Yuan capital of Dadu and its summer capital Xanadu (Shangdu).

If Americans do not consider integrity and character as paramount influences on their vote, then cynicism and selfishness have successfully obfuscated the lessons our parents and grandparents taught us about honesty and morality.