Sentence examples for overriding value from inspiring English sources

Would they concede, for example, that human autonomy cannot always be the overriding value?

The first is that Israel's overriding value is the preservation of its Jewish character and majority.

In light of the overriding value placed on individual emancipation the old bonds are seen not as enriching but as confining.

But they must do so quietly, not allowing these acts, or often even security interests, to damage the new overriding value of the democratic leaders.

Perhaps the overriding value of this book is its vivid and well-researched portrait of rural Southern life during the hard times of the 1920's and the 30's.

But even if the winner-take-all provision stays in the bill, the Assembly should pass it, in light of the overriding value of the measure's ballot-access changes.

Still, agent-relative consequentialists can respond that keeping a promise has great value from the perspective of the agent who made the promise and chooses whether or not to keep it, so the world where a promise is kept is better from the agent's perspective than another world where the promise is not kept, unless enough other values override the value of keeping the promise.

Interior Minister John Reid said the right to free expression was "of overriding political value," while Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett said the award to Mr. Rushdie, who was born Muslim, was part of a British effort to honor Muslims.

Therefore, the owners of businesses must accept governmental restrictions on their profit-making for the sake of overriding social values.

Despite the variety of personal histories, by and large our participants identified a strong personal responsibility to serve others and shared feelings of altruism as overriding motivational values.

The social value of a common standard may override the value of superior ones.