overriding question

collocation in English

meaningsofoverridingandquestion

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overriding
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈraɪ.dɪŋ/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈraɪ.dɪŋ/
more important than ...
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question
noun
uk
/ˈkwes.tʃən/us
/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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(Definition ofoverridingandquestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverriding question

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Although not explicitly stated, both committee memoranda address theoverridingquestionabout the general attitude toward life and death.
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The problem of averting nuclear war is the paramount andoverridingquestionof our time.
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Those questions must be asked, but there is anoverridingquestion: why tax child benefit?
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However, theoverridingquestionof the justification of subsidies is not taken up.
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Theoverridingquestionis whether one can really blame them.
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Theoverridingquestionhere is always the difference between codes of practice and statutory regulations.
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Again, the debate has shown the delicate balance which must be drawn between theoverridingquestion of protecting children and the rights of the individual.
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All these are bound up with theoverridingquestionof the pacification of this area.
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Fourthly, on the general economic side there is thisoverridingquestionof confidence.
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Theoverridingquestionis whether the pain and suffering caused will be caused necessarily or unnecessarily.
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The cardinal issue, however, concerns theoverridingquestionof principle that the programme should be voluntary.
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I believe that one of the overriding questions, though perhaps not the onlyoverridingquestion, is the convenience of the public.
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We have not debated that, because it is appreciated that there is a very graveoverridingquestionof policy.
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Then there is theoverridingquestion, the matter of quality.
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But theoverridingquestionremains: just exactly what is the analysis behind the other 80 per cent?
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But today'soverridingquestiongoes beyond that.
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Anyway, quite apart from those factors, theoverridingquestionis what the ultimate outcome will be even if in the end the anti-inflationary goal is reached.
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