overarching concern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoverarchingandconcern
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overarching
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɑː.tʃɪŋ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːr.tʃɪŋ/
most important, because of including or affecting all ...
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concern
noun
uk/kənˈsɜːn/us/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofoverarchingandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Individual chapters are organized in two parts: a charting of the period in question, followed by play analysis, with formations and constructions of whiteness as theoverarchingconcernand focus.
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For most facilitators, theoverarchingconcernwas to carve a 'niche' that would complement and augment rather than supplant any existing provision.
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Finally, thisoverarchingconcernwith the metaphorical construction of the science might be regarded as a postmodern conclusion.
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Reece'soverarchingconcernlies with post-liberalism, with divorce providing her case study of the post-liberal self and its relationship with community.
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State regulation of commercial enterprises both large and small arose from anoverarchingconcernwith the disorderly effects of competing, profit-seeking industrialists.
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Indeed, this book totally ignores what can only be described as theoverarchingconcernof grammarians in both centuries: the description and promotion of 'good' pronunciation.
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It is thatoverarchingconcern, with its respect for truth as such and not merely for productivity, which leads me to share the concern for academic freedom.
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That being said, we must of course also distinguish between matters to which the principle of subsidiarity should apply and those which are matters ofoverarchingconcern.
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Modern validity theory defines construct validity as theoverarchingconcernof validity research, subsuming all other types of validity evidence.
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However, one wonders whether such overarching concerns and the broad coverage do not, in some parts, militate against the coherence of the whole work.
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