Sentence examples for overriding objective in from inspiring English sources

"Our overriding objective in restructuring British Energy was to maintain nuclear safety and security of electricity supply," it said.

Annan's overriding objective in reconceiving peacekeeping strategy was, as he said, to protect the U.N. from getting set up and blamed, and in this he has been remarkably successful.

To select simulated artificial habitats patterns that meet the needs of decision makers, the overriding objective in this study is to enhance the performance of conventional fractal-based habitat model.

Verger has one overriding objective in life: to capture Lecter and subject him to a slow, painful death.

This said, the overriding objective in fashioning self-narratives is to replace fragments of tales that are incoherent or unacceptable with a coherent story indicative of self-constancy (Linde, 1993), so that narrators can 'recognize themselves in the stories they tell about themselves' (Ricoeur, 1988: 247).

If continuously raising standardized test scores were made the sole criterion for schools avoiding being labelled in "need of intervention and support" and subjected to intervention, schools would continue to feel under pressure to make raising test scores their overriding objective.

Unfortunately, stability and employment are the overriding objectives of Beijing.

Distinguished Delegates, the panorama of achievements and progress set forth in the Executive Director's Report makes it clear that amid all our preparations for the 21st Century, UNICEF's overriding objectives for children remain the same.

One of our overriding objectives is to ensure that individual and cultural goals are in sync.

Its overriding objectives are the election as president of Vice-President Al Gore, who supports the China bill, and winning a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.

Mr. Obama must tell the American people that these, indeed, are the overriding objectives.