How To Use Overriding In A Sentence

The overriding principle is not to offend the sensitive by immoderate cachinnation at an inappropriate joke. Times, Sunday Times
If Amy weren't under guard, she'd be working on overriding the overrides and getting control back.
One overriding principle governs farmers' markets everywhere: the producer sells direct to the consumer.
A satisfactory and lasting result in the water context cannot be achieved and should not be attempted by wholly divorcing consideration of the overriding conflict.
That is the overriding priority and that is what he is good at. The Sun

Complementing this negative case against the claims of traditional political-military history to be of overriding importance, Herder also has positive reasons for focusing instead on the “innerness” of human life in history. Johann Gottfried von Herder
If counterintelligence becomes the overriding mission, the obvious answer is the solution first offered by Sen.
On 8 April 1962, when ninety percent of metropolitan voters approved the Evian Accords, that overriding objective was finally achieved.
Finally there are federal judges, who have a general and overriding authority over the other levels of jurisdiction.
Alphabetize. Alphabetize. This doesn't help navigate your attributes, but it does help prevent you from duplicating an attribute and accidentally overriding a previous setting.
Their insensitivity is matched only by their overriding self-belief.
The pain was unbearable but the overriding emotion was a fear of dying. The Sun
It can do nothing more than react to difficulties because it has no overriding or higher goal towards which it is striving.
The overriding metaphor of the seasons also provides a note of consolation, suggesting not only loss and death but also renewal and rebirth. TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
The overriding considerations are in my judgment these.
There is an overriding theme to this mural, and that is one of duality.
This overriding limit is subject to adjustment in the event of certain specified alterations to the Company's share capital.
His attachment to the vow of celibacy takes overriding precedence over everything else, including the public weal.
Our bus driver, Osca, a fellow Mbena, went overboard here, his genteel and charm overriding all sensibility. Archive 2009-01-01
Two years ago, the buzz in Lucknow and elsewhere in the state was the overriding desire and concern to get rid of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and his goonda raj. Mayawati Magic
They will instead be referred to a brigade-level review, where the overriding consideration will be keeping them on the Army's books.
Airline pilots are well accustomed to overriding mechanisms of this sort.
It has further been shown that the propagating distance of the deformation front depends on the brittle integrated strength and buoyancy force of the overriding plate, as well as the amount of migration of the trench.
That seems to be their only overriding, unifying theme. The Sun
The government's overriding concern is to reduce inflation.
Hence, although emotion is the overriding topic, paradoxically it is not immediacy but diffuseness in diction, syntax, and argument that has manifested itself as the overriding style. “The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Just when I resolved to listen to the version française, * in piped the President again, overriding the French! French Word-A-Day:
If the farm has hill-grazing rights, these may assume an overriding importance in relation to other factors.
The overriding goal of state policy was to keep the elderly as independent as possible, so as to minimize costs.
Yet, while George confutes the morality of the landowner's original title, he does not regard this as good enough reason, in itself, for overriding the claim of the present incumbent.
The overriding colours are natural hues of tan, brown and olive greens contrasted with a bright white base, to give a soft, earthy look.
If the farm has hill-grazing rights, these may assume an overriding importance in relation to other factors.
Money replaces craft as the overriding priority. Times, Sunday Times
If counterintelligence becomes the overriding mission, the obvious answer is the solution first offered by Sen.
My overriding reaction, apart from blinking back tears from the sheer pain of surgery? Times, Sunday Times
Chapman came to criticize the league system most for making success the overriding consideration.
The overriding feeling is often a sense of helplessness. Christianity Today
The notion of the overriding importance of applicability of learning is born of long immersion in community education.
However, my comments have all flowed from the original overriding brief to Masons.
The overriding problem with acquisitions is in integrating the new assets.
Their overriding concern is with efficient crime control.
And the overriding sentiment is one of gratitude that they lived through such a period. Times, Sunday Times
And once the band start to realise that the Foum is theirs for the taking, there's no stopping the emotional exuberance overriding the technical side and becoming the overarching feature of the night.
It is graphic, depressing and leaves the audience with an overriding feeling of emptiness.
It's official; feminine pretty prints are the overriding message from fashion capitals, colour is key and black is in the shade.
The overriding one this year concerns childhood obesity. Times, Sunday Times
Ramirez sat down, and typed in his personal code, overriding the General's fail-safes and security measures as he retook control of the automated defence systems.
It is through necessity rather than choice that we have taken this action and patient safety has to be the overriding consideration.
My overriding concern has always been his wellbeing. The Sun
But the overriding likeness is the fun, almost absurdist sense of humor.
The preponderance of scientific evidence supports the overriding similarities between men and women.
Annual or yearly performance results will generally have an overriding importance.
The pain was unbearable but the overriding emotion was a fear of dying. The Sun
Yet the diffusive linked progress of Victorian perfectibility seems instinct there nonetheless, grammatically as well as rhythmically, overriding the caesura and all the other shocks and setbacks of progression, not only in the emphatic glottal ligature of "growing good" but in the double semantic bond of the words. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
There is a penalty for overriding.
This search for one answer above all, this Gnostic quest for an overriding key to history, is both dangerous and inimical to conservatism.
But the overriding theme served to elucidate his orientation to engineering principles based on human and animal anatomy.
Imagine a football game with no scoreboard, no overriding authority and no rules: That's what arguments are like.
It is of overriding importance to finish the project this week.
Often the overriding sensation ministers feel is loneliness. Christianity Today
But the series has one overriding problem. Times, Sunday Times
As I have said, the overriding consideration under Part IV is the fulfilment of the child's special educational needs.
This imbalance is down to one overriding factor. Times, Sunday Times
And the overriding sentiment is one of gratitude that they lived through such a period. Times, Sunday Times
Emily wasn't exactly a Munro-bagger, but any time she'd chmbed a hill, it had been the same: an irresistible drive overriding considerations of comfort, fatigue, hunger or blistered heels. Be My Enemy
The simple lending and savings schemes described as ‘micro-financing’ or ‘micro-credit’ in officialese, is seen as the viable solution to livelihood where poverty is the overriding factor.
But the overriding weakness, which design thinking makes manifest, is that good design is necessarily the product of a heavily centralized structure. Knowledge is Power: kiplog: June 2009 Archives
The work is violently powerful, its overriding message being the oppression of the Mexican lower classes.
But the overriding concern of kosher slaughter isn't the pain of the animal; it's the humanity of the slaughterer.
There were tears and laughter but the overriding emotion was total relief. Times, Sunday Times
That will require action to meet the practical concerns of states that still regard the nonintervention principle as of overriding importance to their national well-being.
Ramirez sat down, and typed in his personal code, overriding the General's fail-safes and security measures as he retook control of the automated defence systems.
He subordinated most of a wide set of social, labor and political reforms to his overriding interest in realizing a sweeping agrarian reform in the henequen zone.
Since the reform and opening up policy was adopted in the early 1980s, the Chinese Government has always firmly put stability as a principle of overriding importance.
Would we be better off obeying physical signals rather than continually overriding them?
His unconventional and highly individualist style may be forgiven, as well as his occasional overriding of the composers' instructions.
In the case of this legislation, the welfare of our children has to be the overriding consideration.
This highly focused woman is now reserving her energy almost entirely for the overriding priority of art. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, these cannot be allowed to become the overriding considerations but the concepts of fairness between classes of beneficiaries does not require them to be excluded.
The edge of the overriding plate is crumpled and uplifted to form a mountain chain parallel to the trench.
My overriding concern has always been his wellbeing. The Sun
This imbalance is down to one overriding factor. Times, Sunday Times
The overriding one this year concerns childhood obesity. Times, Sunday Times
It means that the contract is to be treated as unenforceable on grounds of some overriding public policy.
There was an overriding message of "deliverability" and "believability" particularly on health, said a senior Labor source. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
What is the point of overriding a planning department in the council, and the citizens of the city?
I am Lirael, Daughter of the Clayr," pronounced Lirael, her anger overriding her familiar feeling of being an imposter. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
The overriding impression is one of mayhem, machismo, bluster and braggadocio.
But the series has one overriding problem. Times, Sunday Times
My overriding concern is to raise the standards of state education.
The overriding feeling is often a sense of helplessness. Christianity Today
The ethical principles of non- maleficence and beneficence might be used as justification for overriding her autonomy.
Items 4 to 6 of the items overriding the exceptions relate to item 4 of the excepted items.
In Anne's case, the overriding impression was that of a dignified and decent woman struggling hard to cope with the pain of ending a marriage which just hadn't worked out.
This overriding interest suggests that you're probably on your way to being an outstanding sculler.
Yes the economy is the overriding issue, but should voters and commentators ignore Christine O'Donnell's career as a pro - abstinence advocate and her recent concern about cross-breeding mice-and-men ... and for Newt Gingrich to talk about Obama in the context of Nazi Germany and Sharia Law? HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin: On Gingrich, the GOP, Gaga & Colbert
The overriding colours are natural hues of tan, brown and olive greens contrasted with a bright white base, to give a soft, earthy look.
Their overriding concern is with efficient crime control.
In 18 he was given tribunician power for five years, a power held otherwise only by Augustus, and his imperium (overriding military and civil authority) was renewed for the same period.
On arrival he was struck by the light, the shock jocks that ruled the Sydney airwaves, and - most bizarre of all in a country that prided itself on a rather larrikin disregard for authority - the overriding obedience to rules.
With safety as the overriding consideration, should the court remove a child from its home, or return a child to its family?
I hope that others of you will join the chain with your own capsulated thoughts on important issues of the day, and will speak to what overriding elements -- Compassion? Speedlinking 8/7/07
Here and there might have been discerned a frown at these revelations concerning a most puissant noble of the English Crown, but the overriding reaction was an untrammeled delight in the scandal. Sick Cycle Carousel
The operator has the option of overriding the sensor automatically selected by the operational software.
The idea of happiness forms the overriding motif in the collection, raised in each story, sometimes with a slightly coercive nudge. The Times Literary Supplement
The overriding message was that, as a tiny hamlet, this was the only place they saw each other. Times, Sunday Times
The government's overriding concern is to reduce inflation.
If the overriding plate is continental, the volcanic arc expresses itself as an extended mountain range such as the Andes of South America.
Gould's time was too precious and his ambition too overriding to allow him a thought for artistic temperament.
And as such, I am overriding all Calls for Beer with a Call for Rum and/or Ale, at the Old Thameside Inn, from sixish onwards. Call for Rum.
On the one hand, it is ultimately answerable to the ruling body of the Central Bank, whose overriding goal is to maintain a stable and solvent financial system.
Every consideration was subservient to the overriding need to cut costs.
How, Dalgliesh wondered, had the sculptor managed to convey the sweetness and the obstinacy of that individual smile, to model compassion and yet reduce it to self-delusion, to show humility garbed in a monk's habit -nd yet convey an overriding impression of the puissance of evil. She Closed Her Eyes
The biggest interpersonal flaw in any manager's tool kit is the constant overriding need to win.
This highly focused woman is now reserving her energy almost entirely for the overriding priority of art. Times, Sunday Times
In this conception of politics, the ruler's overriding concern was with justice and the encouragement of virtue throughout the city, for it was on virtue that peace and good order ultimately depended.
Their overriding concern has been the preservation of their own interests, against those of their factional rivals.
The overriding concern of the main parties was the seeming lack of any interest in an election by the public.
There is patently no legitimate overriding purpose independent of invidious racial discrimination which justifies this classification.
Economic ideology took a decidedly secondary place, with respect to what they considered as an overriding historical imperative.
An ultrasound scan revealed more intracardiac defects such as pulmonic stenosis, ventricular septal defects, overriding aorta and ventricular hypertrophy, a condition known as Tetralogy of Fallot. News24 Top Stories
Overriding the usual five-year waiting period, Pope Benedict XVI has begun the process of beatifying his predecessor.
His crusade against redundancy and overspending in government seemed fuelled by an overriding concern for the common good.
Overriding of the molt-inducing stimulus of multiple limb autotomy in the mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii by parasitization with a rhizocephalan. Parasite Rex
Markers had been set up on the killing field, and the Defenders waited, discipline overriding their apprehension as the attackers neared. TREASON KEEP
The overriding authority, the viceroy, whatever you wish to call him, actually has a considerable control and power, but they must be clear and honest with the local population.
The models consist of a two-layered brittle-ductile system representing the overriding continental lithosphere, overlying a low-viscosity layer simulating the asthenosphere to provide isostatic support.
My overriding concern is to raise the standards of state education.
The conquest of inflation has been the Government's overriding economic priority for nearly 15 years.
They reconfigure the positions of particles in the brains of any organic beings, as well as overriding any computers on the ship.
Admittedly it is difficult to draw comfort from so glib and overriding a statement, but a willingness to compromise your vision and not micromanage the project will see you through.
Subject to this overriding consideration, the umpire at the bowler's end should stand where he does not interfere with either the bowler's run up or the striker's view.
His unrest was palpable, overriding the lucrative offers to produce more nostalgia in favor of following this higher calling.
The overriding impression is one of mayhem, machismo, bluster and braggadocio.
This was the overriding message coming across to a group of Irish newspaper editors on a visit to Brussels last week.
From a handselling point of view, I have the luxury of overriding the cover art and encouraging buyers to get to the people inside, and that's where your voice has to be clear and powerful. Pick up lines
When convergence rate and subduction rate differ, the trench migrates with respect to a fixed point in the overriding plate interior.
It also says the traffic would be unwelcome and that no consideration of the overriding need for the mineral has been demonstrated.
Often with experience comes an overly philosophical detachment - an overriding sensitivity to the relative merits of varying points of view.
The Government made clear that its overriding objective was to reduce the burdens on industry by aligning domestic law with Community law.
As with Frederick and Catherine, his overriding consideration was the power and well-being of the State.
The store has an overriding accent on simplicity of design and ease of shopping for the customers.
That is the overriding priority and that is what he is good at. The Sun
If counterintelligence becomes the overriding mission, the obvious answer is the solution first offered by Sen.
The central and overriding focus of this project is dealing with racism face-to-face.
Any hypothecs effecting this ‘unregisterable’ part are considered as overriding interests but one may choose to include same in the application.
The buoyancy force was calculated from the potential energy difference between the overriding continental plate and the subducting oceanic plate.
Hence, although emotion is the overriding topic, paradoxically it is not immediacy but diffuseness in diction, syntax, and argument that has manifested itself as the overriding style. “The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The reality consists of an overriding concern with the physical consummation of their aborted marriage.
The ethical principles of non- maleficence and beneficence might be used as justification for overriding her autonomy.
The goal of rehabilitation was long ago replaced by that of warehousing, and now the overriding objective is to warehouse cheaply.
The government's overriding concern is to reduce inflation.
The short-term cause of overriding local significance were the droughts and crop failures in 1920 and 1921.
There were tears and laughter but the overriding emotion was total relief. Times, Sunday Times
On 8 April 1962, when ninety percent of metropolitan voters approved the Evian Accords, that overriding objective was finally achieved.
The album ends with a recording of beat poet Charles Bukowski talking about his overriding need to escape the banality of his everyday working life.
It's like you have an overriding sense of the goodness of the universe unfolding as it should. Times, Sunday Times
But the overriding watchword is public service delivery.
Such a decision, especially today, requires extraordinarily strong reasons for overriding the presumption in favor of peace and against war.
Their overriding aim was to keep costs low.
The other is a group ethic, whereby loyalty and mutual assistance are viewed as overriding values. Times, Sunday Times
Was it possible, for example, to let the computer perform while occasionally causing some change to the performance, in effect overriding the computer's decisions?
Were it to come to trial, it would put the Lords, as judges, in an invidious position, and exposes them to the charge that they are overriding the will of the Commons.
This overriding limit is subject to adjustment in the event of certain specified alterations to the Company's share capital.
Another argument put forward is that the number of treaties signed with each member state are so many as to create a mass of overlapping complex texts that need to be consolidated into a single overriding treaty.
But in this case, a number of overriding political considerations made this unviable.
Time and time again, when we are looking at sentences and looking at parole, the overriding consideration seems to be whether the offender, if let out, will pose a risk.
Unfortunately, the researchers were unaware of a more overriding and crucial restriction - that the chemical groups on either side of the peptide bond were very likely to be coplanar.
Her overriding perception of the game, for all its quality as a spectator sport, was the lack of style and sexiness in its presentation.
Development is of overriding importance.
The brown colour of the seaweed is due to the brown pigment fucoxanthin overriding the green pigment chlorophyll. Brown Seaweed Helps Burn Excess Fat | Impact Lab
The overriding emotion when we are together is comfort and pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
In the end, however, there was an overriding consideration.
The overriding priority, therefore, was to ensure that the structure of the Party should guarantee its ideological purity.
In any successful war, individual battles must be fought with an eye towards the overriding objective.
The experience of others, therefore, provides no grounds for overriding my judgement.
Gould's time was too precious and his ambition too overriding to allow him a thought for artistic temperament.
The institution has been and continues to be rife with examples of imperious pastors operating on whim and arbitrarily overriding consensual decisions.
Yet he is being criticized, even threatened by his superiors for refusing to make financial considerations the overriding factor.
The overriding message from residents was a wish for councillors to be held to account and to be open.
Money replaces craft as the overriding priority. Times, Sunday Times
Both of these documentarians are modern artists who capture the truth and then ‘spin’ it, making it conform to and with their overriding cinematic thesis.
The overriding emotion when we are together is comfort and pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
For them, the sovereignty of the consumer was the overriding consideration.
It is unfair to employers, too, whose interests are not overriding but are nonetheless owed common honesty.
The overriding goal of a pay-per-click advertising system is to get people to click on the most lucrative ads as often as possible.
So Israel's occupation of the West Bank, its economic stranglehold on Gaza, its foot-dragging on peace-making, and the suffering that inflicts on Palestinians all get a pass from the U.S. public and policymakers because they sympathize with Israel's supposedly overriding need to protect its security. Ira Chernus: J Street's Wrong Turn
Security at home and abroad was the overriding concern. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
It's like you have an overriding sense of the goodness of the universe unfolding as it should. Times, Sunday Times
Secondly, the geometry of rigid crust that makes up the overriding plate, will have a big impact on how stress is transmitted into the sediments that are caught up in the subduction zone.
He said this is not permissible under the law and the rules could not have overriding effect.
Security at home and abroad was the overriding concern. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
The pain was unbearable but the overriding emotion was a fear of dying. The Sun
I accept that in this emergency, national defense must be our overriding concern.
My overriding reaction, apart from blinking back tears from the sheer pain of surgery? Times, Sunday Times
Here the placing of some particular pawn or piece may be of overriding significance while general considerations recede into the background.
And he singled out the abundant evidence he has found that the organizational approach is of overriding importance.
The conquest of inflation has been the Government's overriding economic priority for nearly 15 years.
I guess I could say many of us have not found this legislation to be particularly digestible, in the sense of being able immediately to fall into a position of overriding support for it.
The overriding selling point for all juices is that they attain the magical properties of both sensational taste and outstanding health benefits.

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