The phrase "an overall rule" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a general principle or guideline that applies broadly to a situation or context.
Example: "While there are exceptions, the overall rule is that all employees must submit their reports by Friday."
Alternatives: "a general guideline" or "a universal principle".
This is not an overall rule.
As an overall rule, I believe that hair is an accessory to have fun with.
Here, the authors provide data supporting this concept and extend it to an overall "Rule of Tens" for pig lungs.
As an overall rule, don't stay in one place at more than a couple of seconds, unless you are camping.
For wealthy as well as many middle-class Americans, Mr. VanDerhei, said, "Any overall rule of thumb I give would be silly, but I plead with people, before you retire please go see somebody, please spend a couple of hundred dollars to see a financial planner to discuss the correct drawdown strategy, annuitization and other matters".
We then used a subjective process to combine the regression trees from each data set to create an overall decision rule.
Given a set of expert-based control rules in a fuzzy rule base structure, proposed algorithm computes the inconsistencies and redundancies in the overall rule set based on a newly proposed measure of equality of the individual fuzzy sets.
The overall rule is to say what a plain-speaking English-speaker would say and to avoid waffle.Against that is the curiously Anglophone fact that referring to people with a noun minus an adjective seems reductive, especially for groups that have been persecuted or are more vulnerable than others.
"The overall rule about running elections is check, check and check again," he said.
Yet Vladislav Inozemtsev of the Centre for Post-Industrial Studies notes that, for Mr Putin's overall rule, "growth in income is more important than growth in economy itself".
"We still have to deal with the Israeli occupation," Mr. Dajani said, referring to the division of the West Bank into different areas of authority under the overall rule of the Israeli military.
