Sentence examples for the overriding value from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

Radical democrats assert the overriding value of equality, communitarians maintain that the demands of belongingness trump freedom, and conservatives complain that the liberal devotion to freedom undermines traditional values and virtues and so social order itself.

Members were imbued with a spirit of anti-careerism, and a major influence in their meetings, talks and drinking sessions was the philosophy of John Anderson who had lectured many of them on the value of risk, endeavour, withdrawal from consumerist society and the overriding value of criticism to the health of a society.

When we look at the development of variables, we repeat ourselves in the overriding values of the opposite of the other regions.

For many, liberalism rests on the value of individual autonomy, but this reliance either assumes that respect for autonomy is merely one value among others in the liberal view, or autonomy has overriding value.

This preoccupation with truth is based on the implicit assumption that truth has some overriding value.

Or when the Murdoch newspapers somehow convinced themselves of the authenticity, or at least the overriding publicity value, of the fraudulent Hitler diaries.

Pacifism in either form places overriding value on respecting human life, notably through its injunction against killing.