adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's overriding concern (= much more important than anything else )
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An artist's overriding concern is to achieve the highest standard possible.
the overriding priority (= the most important one )
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The reduction of inflation must be the Government’s overriding priority.
the overwhelming/overriding impression (= an impression that is stronger than all others )
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The overwhelming impression after the meeting was one of optimism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
concern
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The Board's overriding concern was to deprive employees found guilty of such acts of their reinstatement rights.
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Thus, during these years, the overriding concern of the government in office was parliamentary survival and electoral prospects.
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Why this should be our only or even our overriding concern remains as opaque as ever.
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The government's overriding concern to ensure domestic stability ruled out the possibility of landless Emancipation.
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Its overriding concern is with efficient crime control.
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The country is asked to pay the price of the Government's overriding concern that they should not lose face.
consideration
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Lengthy research went on to find suitable precedents but the overriding consideration was the position of Lloyd George and the Liberals.
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For them, the sovereignty of the consumer was the overriding consideration .
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As with Frederick and Catherine, his overriding consideration was the power and well-being of the State.
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Chapman came to criticize the league system most for making success the overriding consideration .
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There may be many factors to take into account, but usually the overriding consideration is monetary.
importance
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If the farm has hill-grazing rights, these may assume an overriding importance in relation to other factors.
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The notion of the overriding importance of applicability of learning is born of long immersion in community education.
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The overriding importance of death and disease in the seventeenth century have seldom found such a chronicler.
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Within their own spheres, they were of overriding importance .
need
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The overriding need is to ensure these park trees are not merely protected but replanted.
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There were two overriding needs which had to be met by the Roman road network - military and economic.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an overriding concern about safety
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an overriding concern to secure business efficiency.
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The overriding need here is to end the civil war.
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The overriding theme of the conference is the need to reduce Third World debt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ellis, according to his successor Beto, had two overriding overt concerns.
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On 8 April 1962, when ninety percent of metropolitan voters approved the Evian Accords, that overriding objective was finally achieved.
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Our overriding priority is to provide our shareholders with a satisfactory financial return on their investment.
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Strangely enough, sport is not the overriding tradition of the West Indies.
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The overriding priority, therefore, was to ensure that the structure of the Party should guarantee its ideological purity.
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This is not, however, to suggest that assessment considerations should be the overriding factor in the development of qualifications.
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Thus, during these years, the overriding concern of the government in office was parliamentary survival and electoral prospects.
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Unless there was some overriding issue of national security, Lord Young should have acknowledged that and published.