Sentence examples for overriding issue but from inspiring English sources

How they performed against the unsung players who made up the bulk of the Cricket  Chairman's XI (and it is difficult to imagine the estimable Wally Edwards burning the midnight oil as he mulled over the selection conundrums) was perhaps not the overriding issue but it was a factor.

But the overriding issue is age.

But the overriding issue is the widespread carrying of knives.

The new board needs to add British members, but the overriding issue for the next two years will be whether the shareholders will lose control of the company to creditors.

Chuck Hagel needs be asked many questions but one overriding issue is Hagel's relationship to the interests of the oil producers from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and on.

But the overriding issue for me as leader of a public higher education institution is being able to ensure access and affordability as we also maintain institutional excellence.

"But that's not the overriding issue here.

"Bill Curry could be talking about traffic in Fairfield County," an overriding issue there, said Edward L. Marcus, Connecticut's former Democratic Party chairman, "but that would be on Page 11, and the sniper would be on Page 1, and Iraq would be on Page 1".

But my sense is that the more overriding issue isn't James' ability to succeed Rupert in the near term - which seems unimaginable - but the future of the founding family's rule over News Corporation.

Recently, Aβ-immunization therapy has emerged as a particularly promising therapeutic option for treating Alzheimer's disease, but unexpected treatment-related side-effects are an overriding issue.

The answer, alas, is evident: the overriding issue for Catholic fundamentalists is not sexual morality, or even "life," but papal authority.