The phrase "overarching law" is correct and usable in written English.
It is generally used to refer to a governing law that is all-encompassing and overarching in scope. For example, "The overarching law of the United States is the Constitution, which provides the framework for all other laws and statutes within the US."
America's Dodd-Frank act is a single overarching law that directs agencies to issue more detailed regulations.
If they were clever enough, scientists on each brane world could deduce the same overarching law of gravity, the lingua franca of the megaverse.
By the early 1960s the Japanese government had begun to consider a comprehensive pollution-control policy, and in 1967 Japan enacted the world's first such overarching law, the Basic Law for Environmental Pollution Control.
When the Investment Company Act, an overarching law governing the mutual fund industry, was enacted in 1940, the dominant form of mutual funds in the U.S. was the CEF.
But while Congress has enacted broad laws providing for the stewardship of America's public lands -- its national parks, forests and wilderness -- there is no overarching law governing the oceans, nor is there a single government agency focused on their well-being.
The overarching law that the philosophers in India believed in was called ṛta the principle of cosmic order or harmony that 'makes science possible, the world beautiful and the humans moral'.
You and your colleagues serve on the very institution American democracy has always relied on to resolve conflicts that arise when the electorate in one state sees things one way and another state's electorate sees the issue another way, or when a state law tramples on rights covered by the overarching federal law of the Constitution which you so solemnly invoke.
For Leibniz, vis viva is a force attributable to particular bodies in virtue of which they are able to perform work on other bodies — or as in the case of a pendulum — on themselves; he thus held the conservation of vis viva to be the most fundamental, overarching conservation law for the physical world.
But many have remained reluctant to work with marijuana businesses because of overarching federal prohibition laws.
The FinCEN policy, which requires financial institutions to regularly file reports on their cannabis customers, was intended to provide clarity and assurances to banks, but many have remained reluctant to work with marijuana businesses because of overarching federal prohibition laws.
The United States, by contrast, has no overarching privacy law.
