Example sentences for: overarching

How can you use “overarching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mehta's multivolume autobiography, titled Continents of Exile , has loss as its overarching theme: loss of sight, of childhood, of home and country, and now--with this volume--loss of Mr. Shawn's New Yorker . The memoir takes us from the time the author was hired as a staff writer in the early '60s up to 1994, when he was "terminated" by the loathed Tina Brown in her vandalization of his cherished magazine.

  • On the other hand, perhaps, South Africa may even be able to get a clearer view of its harsh realities, and its uphill tasks, without his overarching charisma.

  • As a result, it will be important for the new department to focus on: articulating a clear overarching mission and core values; establishing a short list of initial critical priorities; assuring effective communication and information systems; and developing an overall implementation plan for the new national strategy and related reorganization.

  • The overarching purpose of a balanced-budget agreement is, presumably, to balance the budget.

  • Using the "discussion draft" on the hallmarks of a comprehensive, integrate statewide civil legal assistance system prepared by the Project for the Future of Equal Justice as a model, the planners adopted as two overarching goals: (1) the need for the creation of a legal services delivery system that provides comprehensive, integrated high quality legal services to the client community and (2) "100% access to essential legal services for low-income Ohioans such that they are able to secure substantive and procedural equal justice."


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