Sentence examples for overriding objective was from inspiring English sources

His overriding objective was to help secure an international treaty outlawing chemical warfare.

And our overriding objective was for the county to regain fiscal stability.

"Our overriding objective was to help the Cuban people defend their revolution," he said.

Yet his overriding objective was to give ordinary citizens the kind of influence that the elites already had.

We didn't know what line we had to cross to provoke Saddam Hussein into using weapons of mass destruction — maybe the border, the Euphrates, the Tigris or the doorway to his presidential palace — and so the overriding objective was speed: get to Baghdad and cut the head off the snake.

Mandela's overriding objective was to set a basis of reconciliation with the white population including his former enemies, which he achieved with the help of dramatic personal gestures, including visiting the widow of Dr Verwoerd and his former prosecutor Percy Yutar, and congratulating the leader of the Springbok rugby team.

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.

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

(In no specific order, but with particular relevance to long-term TA) When you begin work as a technical advisor, your 2 immediate, overriding objectives are to establish trust and to demonstrate that you can add value.

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

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