His commercial decisions were coolly made, but his overriding aim to serve the composers whose music he genuinely loved came to define the whole ethos of the music publishing team.

The overriding aim of the project was to cultivate players who are comfortable on the ball, intelligent and capable of confronting any challenge.

She said her overriding aim was: to design things which people could afford...

That's my overriding feeling even though the weekend results have not gone great for us.

There's always an overriding feeling to a collection, and it can be inspired by anything from art to the natural world.

One powerful, overriding feeling guides every step, every kick he takes.

That comes back to the overriding feeling that, when it came down to it, both teams were happy with a point.

The overriding feeling was fear.

This year, any politician would have to be brain-dead not to realise the overriding importance of economic issues.

Many authors believe in the overriding importance of interspecific competition.

Contrary to the focus of conventional warfare, territory gained, or casualty counts are not of overriding importance in counter-guerrilla warfare.

The drama deals with the psychological pressure and the tense triangle of competences under the overriding importance that each participant has to negotiate the actions with his conscience.

Austerity, though, and the need to rebuild the economy in an ever more competitive world, should not be allowed to be the overriding message.

That was the overriding message from experts yesterday, but it won't reassure those coming up for retirement in the next few years, who have already seen their savings hammered.

The overriding message was that, as a tiny hamlet, this was the only place they saw each other.

Indeed, the overriding message seems to be that it comes down to eating hearty and filling food, enough so that you don't feel stuffed or even full, always slightly under-satiated.

There are two overriding messages that he uses to keep his players positive.

While the cuts would be painful, they were 'guided by fairness and the overriding need to tackle the deficit'.

But these reflationary policies must be balanced against the overriding need to protect the national credit, on which banking credit ultimately depends.

The overriding need was to impress.

They feel an overriding need to maintain their lifestyle, and unable to compromise on their pay expectations, despite their salary contributing to a big initial overhead.

Last night, he signalled his determination to pursue that ambition, despite the overriding need to cut the deficit.

Occasionally the theological issue itself needs to be redefined by an overriding principle of love.

The overriding principle in all the negotiations will be to ensure that the banks can increase their lending to the non-financial businesses, homeowners and consumers.

He believed that the bank turned its back on this overriding principle when it went public in 1999.

There's one overriding principle for declarer - don't ruff in your four-card length.

The overriding principle will be to protect the area’s ecological integrity.

This was an election of surprises, and an election night of shocks, for one overriding reason: this was an electorate that declined to be taken for granted.

I have always been of the opinion that there never was an overriding reason for this state to be established.

The text, which had been the overriding reason for the rejection, was radically rewritten.

It chimed with his own overriding sense of the arbitrariness and unfairness of life.

As for their esteemed head coach, the overriding sense was not 'off with his head' but 'on with the show'.

It's like you have an overriding sense of the goodness of the universe unfolding as it should.

The overriding sense was of unquantifiable loss, not only between 1914 and 1918 but also in the 100 years since.

An overriding sense of duty might be said to have characterised his life and career.

If the overriding theme of the first lockdown was panic-stricken dishevelment, let's try to make this one about dynamic self-improvement.

If there was one overriding theme to which this museum pointed, it was betrayal.

Security has been the overriding theme of the past ten years.

The exhibition has not got an overriding theme or argument to offer.

Fairness was the overriding theme, with this buzzword being mentioned no less than 39 times, more even than the omnipresent political slogan of 'change' (at 25 mentions).