The phrase "an overarching priority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a main or dominant concern that takes precedence over other issues.
Example: "In our organization, ensuring customer satisfaction is an overarching priority that guides all our decisions."
Alternatives: "a primary concern" or "a key focus".
The Australian government has made its intention clear that economic development will be an overarching priority for the aid program.
They suggest that an overarching priority was the minimisation of Israeli military casualties even at the risk of Palestinian civilians being harmed.
Maintaining his image as a strong leader in the eyes of his supporters emerges, again and again in the course of the conversations, as an overarching priority – over and above the maintenance of strong relations with allied countries.
It also claims poverty eradication as an overarching priority for its investments.
The status of ASRH as a subsidiary rather than an overarching priority was a barrier to the integration as was the perpetuation of the traditional donor-NGO-District pathways of funding and administration.
Before that point is reached we should mobilise our governments, the multilateral organisations, and international NGOs to establish as an overarching priority a more equal world income distribution and not just, as now, fewer people in poverty.Robert Wade is professor of political economy at the London School of Economics and a temporary fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.
Development of improved molecular and computational approaches that can generate and sift through exponentially increasing amounts of data is an overarching research priority.
Mr Neil said: "Paying wages, overtime and other payments due to workers should be the overarching priority - and there's a moral responsibility upon HSBC not to hold on to these funds for themselves.
The overarching priority for the NGWF is, however, the organisation and unionisation of workers.
But America is too complex to have national policy reduced to the single overarching priority of counterterrorism.
In Afghanistan, the logic is starkly simple: the hunt for Mr. bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network is the overarching priority of American foreign and military policy.
