over-riding

Voters 'inexplicable, illogical and counter-intuitive shift back to the right is without question the over-riding takeaway from Tuesday's midterm elections.

Andy Ostroy: The Voters Have Spoken...or Have They? Andy Ostroy 2010

Voters 'inexplicable, illogical and counter-intuitive shift back to the right is without question the over-riding takeaway from Tuesday's midterm elections.

Andy Ostroy: The Voters Have Spoken...or Have They? Andy Ostroy 2010

Appoint a Coordinator = each member of the coalition of the willing would have a [UN] appoint a Czar with ultimate authority with over-riding authority, and would answer to [NATO] the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which in turn would set the levy upon that nation for troops and support.

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

Voters 'inexplicable, illogical and counter-intuitive shift back to the right is without question the over-riding takeaway from Tuesday's midterm elections.

Andy Ostroy: The Voters Have Spoken...or Have They? Andy Ostroy 2010

In areas to the north, though, the over-riding sentiment is that worse is to come as filthy, debris-strewn floodwater makes its way south from northern parts of the country.

Thai Airport Offers a Haven James Hookway 2011

Since individual agents have different tastes and quirks, rather than a single over-riding sensibility, publishers are going to get a broad spectrum of what a much larger group of first-readers think is publishable than they would if they hired an intern, with the added benefit of the agents 'personal experience, built over a roster of clients at a variety of different publishers.

msagara: Answering a question about agents msagara 2009

Baumeister and Tierney point to empirical work showing its over-riding importance for academic, personal, career and financial success.

The Will in the World Cordelia Fine 2011

Then last year Movistar came to the neighborhood and anytime we were in town our phones changed over to their signal and even followed us back to the ranch, over-riding T-Mobile.

Wacky Cell Phone Service 2009

In short, quality is still the first and over-riding variable.

Is there an eco-certification premium but an eco-label discount? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

Voters 'inexplicable, illogical and counter-intuitive shift back to the right is without question the over-riding takeaway from Tuesday's midterm elections.

Andy Ostroy: The Voters Have Spoken...or Have They? Andy Ostroy 2010