Sentence examples for this overarching purpose from inspiring English sources

We should expect, therefore, that evil will be found in the world to such a degree and in such variety as best to serve this overarching purpose.

Purpose / Objective The overarching purpose of this evaluation is: to assess the extent to which UNICEF's programmes met their objectives and to draw lessons from this assessment for future improvements; and to assess the extent to which UNICEF's programme objectives fed into DFID's overall strategy for the region.

That would be a great day, no doubt, but surely the overarching purpose of a war can't be to stop more soldiers from dying in it.

Harris M. Cooper, a professor of psychology at Duke who has spent many years studying homework and its effects, says it's important to keep in mind the overarching purpose of the assignment.

Private-equity firms can be more attentive to their fees than to the value of the company, he said, and too inattentive to the overarching purpose of financial engineering.

Whatever the overarching purpose of Homeland Security's deportation binge may be, and for the life of me I can't figure out what it is beyond mere punitive action, it sure isn't focused on making the country safer.

Meanwhile, even though the overarching purpose of the act was supposed to be conservation — the Arctic Refuge is only a small part of the more than a hundred million acres it set aside — by the time it worked its way through Congress it was riddled with parochial and environmentally dubious provisions such as subsidies for logging in national forests.

Don't get bogged down in do's and don'ts, but bear in mind the overarching purpose of good etiquette.

Physiographic maps were derived from the 90 m resolution SRTM DEM, using a suite of existing and new digital landform mapping methods with the overarching purpose of enhancing the physiographic unit component of the Soil and Terrain database (SOTER).

While details of each technical system vary, the overarching purpose of technology systems is to organize, codify, distribute, and maintain knowledge resources [ 44].

The result of extensive inter-governmental negotiation and input from the private sector and civil society, the overarching purpose of the SDGs is to eradicate poverty and combine elements of economic, social and environmental action, including climate change.