Search Result for "paramount issue":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an issue whose settlement is more important than anything else; and issue that must be settled before anything else can be settled; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

paramount issue
    n 1: an issue whose settlement is more important than anything
         else; and issue that must be settled before anything else
         can be settled