Sentence examples for the overriding idea from inspiring English sources

The overriding idea, several Rockies said, was to emphasize pitch efficiency.

Preëmption has since emerged as the overriding idea behind the Administration's foreign policy.

It's about the breakdown of a marriage set against the backdrop of 9/11, with the overriding idea that jihadists may hate America but not as much as a couple in the throes of an acrimonious divorce hate each other.

After more than half a century of European integration driven by the overriding idea that all the nations of the European Union were marching side by side toward "ever closer union," the caldron of the debt crisis is forging a profound change in theory and practice.

The overriding idea was to take the book as a familiar, functional unit and make it something else -- a visual object, a tactile object, a useless object, an accident, a problem, a secret, a mess -- and to do so in inexpensive, hands-on ways.

I guess the overriding idea here is that a proficiency in English would do wonders to improve these people's situation there.

There is that overriding idea – spawned from a Thought Catalog piece about two years ago, if we want to apportion blame – an idea that social media is "just the highlights reel", a focus on the good and a careful sidestepping of the bad, and no more is that so than on Instagram: we never cry on Instagram; we are rarely melancholy.

The overriding theme, colour-wise, is blue.

This argument became the overriding theme of the 1950 report.

The overriding theme of his address was confidence.

The overriding theme of his life -- toughness -- never wavered.