before all else
Example Sentences
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“If there’s massive investment going in now that wasn’t there before, all else being equal, interest rates will be higher across the economy,” Kashkari said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
I think there’s a resurgence of framing service by putting public good or community outcomes before all else.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2022
“Time and again, he put country before self, before party, before all else — in uniform and out — and it earned him the universal respect of the American people.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
These lyrics, sung throughout Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s imperishable 1979 musical, are heeded assiduously by director Kent Nicholson in a solid South Coast Repertory revival that puts the twistedly macabre story before all else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2019
He knew what it was like: the terrible, agonizing pain which was there all the while but could not be suffered yet, because before all else it was necessary to be able to breathe.
From "1984" by George Orwell
