"overarching consideration" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you have a single thought or topic that encompasses all the other considerations related to the subject. For example, "The overarching consideration in the decision was safety."
Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, who is not related to Duane Browne, said: "The overarching consideration that is looked at, in whether a shooting is justified or not, is whether it is reasonable for the police officer to believe that either he or somebody else present is in imminent danger of serious injury or death.
Underlying everything was this overarching consideration: "How to distinguish a mental illness from the rainbow of normal human behavior," as Shari Roan put it in this 2011 Los Angeles Times story.
It's not that I don't like his big books — especially "The Shining," which remains the scariest thing I've ever read, and the 1996 novel "Desperation," an overarching consideration of sin and sacrifice and redemption, set in a Nevada mining town.
The Supreme Court, a very conservative instance of it, ruled in 2008 with mixed results in District of Columbia et al. v. Heller, that cities and states have the absolute right to control firearms in light of the overarching consideration of the Constitution, the public welfare.
An overarching consideration for both occupational and general population sources of exposure to benzene exposure is tobacco smoking.
Thus, an overarching consideration is that the effect estimate of higher intakes of saturated or trans fats on health outcomes is linked to the nutrient that it replaces.
I'll get to the art itself, but there are some overarching considerations.
Three overarching considerations, however, should be taken into account in working toward an appropriate set of responses.
There are overarching considerations to the differences between EHR databases and claims-based samples identified in our findings.
This is the human dimension of the stalemated Syrian violence that is often obscured by overarching geostrategic considerations.
Consequently, their writings are generally devoid of overarching moral considerations, or conformity to divine will topoi which recur in the writings of the followers of Confucius 孔子 (551 479 BCE) and Mozi 墨子 (ca. 460 390 BCE).
