overriding objective

collocation in English

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overriding
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈraɪ.dɪŋ/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈraɪ.dɪŋ/
more important than ...
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objective
noun[C]
uk
/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/us
/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/
something that you plan to do ...
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Theoverridingobjectivewas to reduce state extraction and pacify rural agitation.
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If food insecurity, poverty, and famines are a result of 'capability and entitlements failure ', theoverridingobjectivemust be to overcome vulnerabilities or demand and supply side constraints to food.
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Hence, the overall justification for the trial is to provide a procedural context where theoverridingobjectiveis to facilitate the reconciliation of competing perceptions of 'truth'.
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Ouroverridingobjectivewill be to forge ahead with negotiations so that the timetable for introducing the new framework in 1999 can be achieved.
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We set out anoverridingobjectivein paragraph 83.
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The prison service has anoverridingobjective, which is to contain the prison population within the prison estate.
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The civil procedure rules include anoverridingobjectiveto enable the courts to deal with cases justly.
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We have an independent central bank which is to be established with the legal requirement that itsoverridingobjectiveshould be zero inflation.
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This is a perfectly honourable objective if they wish to do so, but they must ask themselves honestly whether it is theiroverridingobjective.
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Some of the amendments aim at stressing poverty alleviation and eradication as anoverridingobjective.
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Ouroverridingobjectiveis to clear the backlog.
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We will seize every opportunity of doing so provided that we can do this without jeopardising peace, which is ouroverridingobjective.
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The concept of fuel poverty, for example, is no doubt admirable, but it is being imposed as anoverridingobjectivefor the electricity regulator.
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Ouroverridingobjectivehas been to make them a requirement for all schemes.
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Ouroverridingobjectiveis to bring inflation back down.
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The overriding need is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and that should be theoverridingobjectiveof government policy.
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For this reason a negotiated settlement must remain ouroverridingobjective.
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Its total elimination is anoverridingobjective.
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Clause 41 sets out theoverridingobjectivefor priority routes, or red routes as they are unpopularly called.
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Constant erosion of the tax base must run counter to thatoverridingobjective.
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