The phrase "overarching priority" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe something that is of highest importance and is applicable to many situations. For example, "Safety was the overarching priority for the company's new workplace policy."
Before that point is reached we should mobilise our governments, the multilateral organisations, and international NGOs to establish as an overarching priority a more equal world income distribution and not just, as now, fewer people in poverty.Robert Wade is professor of political economy at the London School of Economics and a temporary fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.
Mr Rosser said growing the economy must be the "overarching priority" of the new assembly government.
The overarching priority for the NGWF is, however, the organisation and unionisation of workers.
The Australian government has made its intention clear that economic development will be an overarching priority for the aid program.
But America is too complex to have national policy reduced to the single overarching priority of counterterrorism.
In Afghanistan, the logic is starkly simple: the hunt for Mr. bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network is the overarching priority of American foreign and military policy.
And indeed, there is extensive evidence, Mr. President, that countries that have made the well-being of children and the advancement of women their overarching priorities are those that have already made the greatest strides in human development.
The participants identified several overarching research priorities.
Several questions emerged in our discussions, which we have summarized below as high-priority overarching questions for future research.
Primordial prevention and research priorities were overarching themes.
Long-range strategizing toward overarching goals needed to be her priority.
