The phrase "an overriding commitment to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express a strong dedication or priority towards a particular goal, value, or principle.
Example: "The organization has an overriding commitment to sustainability in all its operations."
Alternatives: "a paramount dedication to" or "a primary focus on".
Without an overriding commitment to maximize the expected good, there is nothing incoherent in rule-consequentialism's forbidding some kinds of act, even when they maximize the expected good.
Behind this accusation must be the assumption must be that rule-consequentialism contains an overriding commitment to maximise the good.
For starting with such a commitment seems very close to starting from an overriding commitment to maximize the expected good.
This is really all there is to the theory — in particular, there is not some third component consisting in or entailing an overriding commitment to maximize expected good.
So, even if rule-consequentialist agents need not have an overriding commitment to maximize expected good, does their theory contain such a commitment?
In order to evaluate the incoherence objection to rule-consequentialism, we need to be clearer about the supposed location of an overriding commitment to maximize the good.
"Due to the corruption in FIFA and the minor investments made in women's international football to date, FIFA also needs an enforceable, overriding commitment to effectively grow the women's game and transform the organization into one that is modern and equitable," she added.
Materialism was thus forestalled, from Lotze's perspective, by his overriding commitment to a value-theoretic teleology.
Large-scale organized violence becomes permissible and sometimes necessary under totalitarian rule, justified by the overriding commitment to the state ideology and pursuit of the state's goal.
But, her overriding commitment since 1971 has been to the Coalition for Clean Air.
If there is one overriding commitment shared by all the classical republicans, it is clearly their commitment to the paramount value of political liberty.
