above all

"It's a victory for all the Cape Verdean people and, above all, a victory for those who fought for our independence."

With the bat, it quickly became apparent that keeping wickets in hand took priority above all else as they crawled through the powerplay.

"A flag we can all be proud of, a flag that symbolises unity, kindness, being the underdog, not having our bins emptied, and above all else, friendship."

Throughout Updike’s life he had a panoply of discouraging but not-terribly-threatening illnesses: asthma, dental failures and, above all, psoriasis.

And then a dose of tax cuts—above all on the stamp duty charged on house purchases, but also on a form of premises tax paid by businesses, among others.