Sentence examples for the overriding question from inspiring English sources

"What was the overriding question?

The overriding question is whether the old way had merit.

But even as the grading begins, the overriding question might be how much these conventions mattered.

The overriding question at the conference was whether Myanmar would become a melting pot or a less integrationist society.

The overriding question on Sunday was how the United States would respond after expending so much emotional energy against England.

"He knows the vote cannot be held and that the overriding question now is when the country holds elections".

The overriding questions are whether it can agree on how to share out power and whether it can translate that agreement into effective mechanisms for administration inside Afghanistan.James Dobbins, the American envoy to non-Taliban groups in Afghanistan, is optimistic.

President-elect Barack Obama has the intellectual capacity and leadership qualities to engage the country in confronting this overriding question.

By turns blunt and beguiling, menacing and mawkish, the films beg an overriding question: Why, with this experience behind it, has the United States failed so conspicuously since Sept. 11 to bolster its image in another region it seeks to transform, the Middle East?

The 25th Focus! festival at the Juilliard School is geared toward answering one overriding question: Is there a "California music," to quote the festival's artistic director, Joel Sachs, and "if so, what is it?" In other words, are there characteristics of contemporary music from that state that could be considered Californian?

You have this great event, but is it helping to elevate poverty?" My overriding question upon arriving in South Africa at the outset of the World Cup was: "Who has the power?" Apartheid's imprint can been seen throughout South Africa.