Sentence examples for was of overriding importance from inspiring English sources

"The issue was of overriding importance.

A trip abroad in 1909, including a visit to Palestine, confirmed Szold in the belief that the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was of overriding importance.

Larry Akey, a spokesman for Mr. Burns, said the issue was of overriding importance to his constituents, who rely heavily on satellite service, and therefore it does not matter whether the measure is approved in an appropriations bill or elsewhere.

Fourteen respondents (22%) stated that their physical or mental disability was of overriding importance.

We decided that it was of overriding importance to obtain a large sample, so we combined prospective and cross-sectional studies.

But what was of overriding importance was to grasp that there were deeper reasons for people taking outrageous actions that only appear to stem from religion.

Exclusion of coexisting injuries is of overriding importance in the initiation of NOM.

The efficient use of water worldwide is of overriding importance due to its vital role in life.

Cohesion increase due to diagenesis and/or very low grade metamorphism is of overriding importance in determining the strength of the deeper parts of the forearc.

Cohesion increase due to diagenesis and/or very low grade metamorphism is of overriding importance and probably permits stresses of up to 18 MPa to be transmitted to the updip end of the seismogenic zone at depth and 5 to 13 MPa to the backstop of the actively deforming frontal prism.

One problem that has received scant attention as an election issue is of overriding importance -- managing the federal government.