uppermost

Well, to me, if you are restricting it to economic policy — because I can surely think of some noneconomic policy concerns that are more uppermost in my mind.

2005, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Tax reform: hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, June 8, 2005, Volume 36, Issues 109-123

As a result, it is not always an easy matter to evaluate, as an outsider, the effectiveness of a life-task strategy (i.e., sometimes the objective indicators of success and failure do not coincide with the goals most uppermost in a person's mind).

2015, Lawrence A. Pervin, Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology

of uppermost importance

This brings me to the uppermost problem for over-60-year-old lesbians. Loneliness.

1990 February 4, Ruth Mountaingrove, “Feeling Less Than A Peer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 14

For him, as for his colleagues, concern with priestly comportment and purity is uppermost.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 735