Sentence examples for were the overriding from inspiring English sources

(R19, UK Numbness, shock, distress and devastation were the overriding emotions conveyed by those respondents who had their loss revealed to them in this way: 'it was a total shock.

While Republicans emphasized that experience and vision were the overriding qualifications, they agreed that the fund-raising bonanza was a much-welcome offshoot.

What, for her, were the overriding issues?

Chief Esposito said that preventing a terrorist attack and making plans to cope if one occurs were the overriding concerns for the police in organizing for the convention.

The panel concluded that his actions -- or lack of action -- before the shootings and while they were happening were the overriding reason the shootings were able to occur, and for the magnitude of the carnage once they began.

The Surrealist practice of mining the subconscious for material combined with her personal experience in analysis were the overriding influences in her paintings of the late 1930s and the 1940s.

Unfortunately, stability and employment are the overriding objectives of Beijing.

Mr. Obama must tell the American people that these, indeed, are the overriding objectives.

But being a woman was the total, overriding factor in the selection-and the precedent was set.

In such people, Yanagisawa says, it is possible that the DMH might be overriding the signals from the normal SCN clock.

In insisting on holding elections by the fall, the Administration is overriding the advice of many of its allies and continuing to bank heavily on Hamid Karzai.