Sentence examples for overarching interests from inspiring English sources

But his overarching interests aligned themselves in the study of architectural history and the history of food.

Ms. Moffat's overarching interests are in tracing Forster's attitudes about sex and hypocrisy and in placing this increasingly outspoken figure within the context of his changing times.

While there are undoubtedly some benefits to be had by this association, for me they are surpassed by the risk of being overshadowed, outshone and, in some cases, tarred by the overarching interests of the group, potentially causing lack of understanding about a university's offering and dampening its wider profile.

She added, however, that the administration's "overarching" interest was to cooperate with countries in the region, particularly in the areas of security and antiterrorism.

There are also long standing interest groups that can cut across friendship groups by pooling all sorts of people into the same messaging thread around a particular overarching interest, such as football or food.

In my scholarly field of political theory, radical critiques of constitutional democracy (whether Marxist, Foucauldian, feminist, Freudian, or post-structuralist) commonly contend that the rule of law is a sham, a pretense, a mere cover for underlying or overarching power interests.

The FY 2007 NIH Research Priorities for Women's Health are described in terms of overarching themes, areas of research interest, and special emphasis areas.

As we get to know each other, we discover a wide range of common interests (movies, opera, British detective novels, M.F.K. Fisher), but overarching them all is the enthusiasm for food and wine that has brought us together.

When he left Leicester six years ago, we had just got promoted to the Premiership and his agent contacted me and asked if I would be interested in having Dean as director of rugby, overarching the coaches we had.

And I have an interest in directing and producing, which also are ways of ensuring overall, overarching goals of the endeavor I'd be in as an actor would be met".

Her overarching 'we' means 'we British'.