Sentence examples for as overriding from inspiring English sources

This was as overriding an existential issue for Burns as it obviously is now: why does the media, which raises stars, drop them?

The 35-year-old came into his fifth Olympics as overriding favourite to top the podium, but failed to finish ahead of the Dane in the first six races.

"Rescinding the dollars in the fund may be seen as overriding taxpayer choice," he was told, "and also as an attack on public financing that would decrease the funds available for the 2012 election".

It was the Society of Conservative Lawyers which recommended in its 1976 report, Another Bill of Rights?, that "the ECHR should be given statutory force as overriding domestic law".

Given their different political pay grades, I think we may regard Brown's promise as overriding Wicks' no-decision posture, and conclude that the decision on the nuclear consultation is done and dusted in nuclear's favour, just as the green NGOs perceptively decided in withdrawing from active participation in the consultation.

Fortunately, we all share impulses of benevolence, and feel reflective affections that esteem those impulses as overriding all others.

In doing so, however, these systems bring the external terms of knowing quality internally as well, overriding or displacing what might have existed before.

Smiley is a wholehearted enthusiast of Dickens, early, middle and late, who doesn't so much muster arguments against common reservations about his writing as simply override them with her say-so: Agnes in David Copperfield, for instance, 'who is often criticised for being dull and one-dimensional but is an interesting evocation of a quiet, self-contained, and responsible female presence'.

In rejecting the Ninth Circuit's approach, Justice Breyer said he did not disagree with that court that the Fair Housing Act identifies the elimination of racial discrimination in housing as an "overriding societal priority," as the appeals court expressed it.

This makes conditions perfect for summer's emphasis on the clash of colour as the overriding male fashion trend.

What counts is the funding and preservation of journalism rather than a form of ownership that views profit as of overriding importance.