Sentence examples for overriding strength from inspiring English sources

"We were all once immigrants," she says, finding the nation's patch-quilt hardiness its overriding strength.

But there has to be a note of caution, for the overriding strength of a successful side lies not in an array of exotic batsmen.

No, it was that someone with such a gift for turning genuine understanding of political processes and the gift of oratory to inspire others to want to be involved, should have thrown away the chance to make a lasting difference by seeing adjustment to changing circumstance as an overriding strength rather than in the end a weakness.

Burial-dependent increases in cohesion, resulting from diagenesis and, at greater depths, from very low-grade metamorphism, are probably of overriding importance in determining rock strength in the accretionary wedge and forearc.

The periodic high fluid pressures would reduce fault strength in the slab and overriding plate, keeping the differential stress low.

Due to the complicated structures of fault zones and the differences in mechanical strength contrast across the decollement, overriding wedge, and underthrust material, the development of phyllosilicate-rich fault rocks may occur heterogeneously.

Can we get them?" Keith's overriding priority was the protection of the Anzac force both in strength and reputation.

While models that predict algal chlorophyll a as a function of nutrients can be useful, model strength is commonly low due to the overriding influence of stream habitat.

While there was no overriding creative or curatorial theme, the festival did have "confidence and strength" as a slogan.

A plate-boundary earthquake at a subduction zone represents the slip between the subducting and overriding plates, and therefore, differences in the level of seismicity can be attributed to differences in the strength of mechanical coupling at the subducting plate interface (Kanamori 1986).

Their overriding concern is that in our frustration with gridlock and long-running political battles, we've lost sight of the Constitution's irreplaceable strengths.