Sentence examples for overriding desire from inspiring English sources

"I don't have this burning, overriding desire to go out and run for office," he said.

All of these factors are political, but in a way that is more subtle and insidious than a crude and overriding desire to impose certain values on audiences.

This has nothing really to do with Russia and communism – this is more an overriding desire to foul your own nest.

After finally recovering from the right knee sprain he sustained near the end of spring training, and from the disappointment of losing his starting first baseman's job, Daniel Murphy sat with Omar Minaya in the visitors' dugout at a Florida ballpark last month and expressed his overriding desire to get back on the field.

"I don't have this burning, overriding desire to go out and run for office," the Times quoted W----r as saying.

While part of the answer probably relates to the relative scarcity of resources in Israel, it is my view that diaspora Jewish success is partly a function of the symbiosis that comes of being a minority, which seems to awaken creativity and originality, not to mention the oft overriding desire to prove yourself as capable or more so than the condescending mainstream.

But many of us are still doing it; the knowledge of the danger doesn't seem to be overriding the desire to stay connected and entertained.

But a bad environmental rating may not override a desire for a pair of must-have shoes any more than nutrition labels stop people from eating junk food.

By the end of the day, the need for sleep tends to override any desire to get fit.

We may have an internal voice saying, "Why take on the headache?" If we have developed a mindset of experimentation and growth, we are able to override the desire for comfort to achieve something bigger.

Housing and transportation needs may override the desire of a healthy spouse to own a house or vehicle.