Sentence examples for Overriding purpose from inspiring English sources

But while nearly all of the real achievements of the Wired Decade -- laptops, flat screens, faster chips, cheap and huge memories, P.D.A.'s, WiFi, instant messaging, browsers, the Web itself, all the actual stuff -- were accomplished by people elsewhere, it was New Yorkers who made the scramble for instant wealth the endeavors' overriding purpose.

Good technology isn't just a matter of mission statements; it can also come from a tinkerer with no specific overriding purpose other than the pursuit of knowledge.

Divining that Congress' overriding purpose was to "improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them," the Court sought to interpret the statute consistently with that purpose "if at all possible".

The prime minister has justified cutting down the opportunity for judicial review of official decisions on the ground that economic progress should be our "overriding purpose", as in times of war.

But its overriding purpose is consonance.

According to these values, Facebook has a single overriding purpose, and it isn't news.

Our overriding public purpose in the antiterror campaign is to deter as many future attacks as we can without subverting our Constitution.

So too the approach of Jesse Jackson: the symbiotic strength of bringing together diverse people - by race, origin, national heritage, class, political perspectives -- in a common overriding public purpose.

The holistic indigenous vision of health (called sumak kawsay in the Kichwa language – or "good living" in English) that is framed as the overriding social purpose in Ecuador's Constitution of 2008 [ 21] is providing an especially timely opportunity for our project to contribute to this mission.

Evolution of plot depends too frequently on chance or supernatural intervention, and characterization is often subordinated to an overriding didactic purpose.

That's also why my faith tells me that God is likely hanging out in North Carolina, where this week the state legislature has called a special session -- at a cost of $42,000 per day -- for the express purpose of overriding a Charlotte non-discrimination ordinance.