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Finally, the Commission's interpretation of the presence requirement is fully consistent with the overarching purpose of the relevant congressional statutes.
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.
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.
A clunky six-pager summarizes the century in thick newsweekly-ese: "The overarching theme of the century's first half was the rise of state power.
It should be noted that, in addition to the uncertainties associated with the regression model, there are overarching uncertainties associated with the application of CALPUFF.