Sentence examples for overriding challenge from inspiring English sources

From the 1940s to the 1990s everyone understood the overriding challenge.

For Colombia, the overriding challenge is to provide security for all its citizens replacing legalism and extra-legal violence with the rule of law.

"The overriding challenge facing the I.R.S. is that its workload has grown significantly in recent years, while its funding is being cut," said Ms. Olson, who called for streamlining the tax code and increasing the agency's budget.

In the same speech, President Clinton suggested that the overriding challenge now is "to build a global economy with a more human face". That is probably right — neither on one hand the prosperous but homogenized world promised by globalization nor, on the other, a world where people savage one another to protect their own identities and interests.

The smoothing of economic and political ties with the West is a prime goal of the leaders here, who see domestic development and stability as their overriding challenge and who are already bracing for new pressures as the country enters the World Trade Organization.

Taking as its starting point the proposition that 'achieving sustainable development will be the overriding challenge of this century', the report calls for 'a new era of change', including on the parts of government, the UN system and the private sector.

Mr. Thompson repeated the Bush administration's position that there was no need to increase production of Cipro by overriding or challenging Bayer's patent on the drug, the brand-name version of ciprofloxacin.

"On behalf of the state, I have no intent or desire to override or challenge local zoning regulations or powers relevant to the location or reconstruction of the Lyman Beecher House," Mr. Blumenthal wrote in a Sept. 1 letter to First Selectman Craig Miner.

It may be true that party organisations in the provinces (some with populations bigger than Britain's) and in the chief cities are jealous of their autonomous local political control, but all retain the discretionary power to do what they choose and override any challenge or complaint from any non-state actor - or, indeed, from state actors if they cross the will of the party.

Challenging or overriding his or her authority disrupts the climate of openness and insinuates totalitarianism.

In an interview with the Telegraph Mr Blunkett said: "If public policy can be always overridden by individual challenge through the courts, then democracy itself is under threat".