Example sentences for: overarching

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

  • 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.

  • Other things that come to mind are The Who with their rock operas, Tommy and Quadrophenia , the way they presented those as overarching allegories about everything, and Pete Townshend, who always seemed so humorless about it all.

  • 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.

  • The overarching values underlying this three year plan included: (1) the need for legal services programs in New Jersey to function as a "concerted, coherent, closely coordinated legal assistance delivery system;" (2) the need to develop additional resources to expand access and improve quality of services within the state; (3) the need to incorporate the views of clients and key partners in making major decisions about how to design and implement a system of high quality comprehensive legal services; and (4) 100% access for clients throughout the state.

  • 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.


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