Sentence examples for overriding identity from inspiring English sources
The conference was supported by the National Secular Society and the British Humanist Association, so that the dozens of ex-Muslims present had the support of over 200 others who believe in the right of individuals to think for themselves and who treat people as human individuals, not merely as bearers of overriding identity labels stuck to their foreheads by tradition and religion.
Rejecting the gay label as his overriding identity, he said: "Ambiguity is the zest of life.
"[i]dentity and loyalty were no longer to be based on family, tribe, kinship, or even religion: the overriding identity was membership in the ummah of Muhammad.
By initiating complex signaling cascades and manipulating genetic circuitry, TFs regulate fundamental cellular behaviors and can also override cellular identity to reprogram and differentiate cells into specific lineages.
This is because those motives are so fundamental to the cohesion of one's own identity that overriding them would mean disintegrating the very self which is necessary to be a moral agent.
Reicher and Haslam say this is a unique chance to test "social identity theory," which posits that group identity can override individual personality in shaping behavior and may help explain how group pressure can lead to racism and terrorism.
They were not the overriding aspect of an Iraqi person's daily identity as slowly became the case after America's 2003 invasion.
In such an environment, national identity has overridden spiritual rivalries.
"overriding a doctor's recommendations".
The moral issue is overriding".
