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Meanings of overriding in English
Having superior power and influence.
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Examples for "paramount"
Examples for "paramount"
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Prevention is therefore paramount and a logical focus for future research attention.
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We shall see the law paramount, before we talk of its reform.
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Greg Clark, the business secretary, said: The safety of consumers is paramount.
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Of course, the safety of all concerned must be of paramount consideration.
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Early identification and treatment of sleep disorders is therefore of paramount importance.
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LANGUAGE: Spanish and French are the official languages, though Spanish is predominant.
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According to the experts the predominant contributing factors are technology and quality.
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In the early days of the internet, search was the predominant use.
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The idea of a predominant Power in Europe was part of absolutism.
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Consequently, the predominant strain in the case study was not host restricted.
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However, he restricts his concern to primary schools, where female teachers predominate.
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Both across the world and in the Middle East, socioeconomic concerns predominate.
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In any such view, the wild, the aboriginal, the geographical greatly predominate.
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One or more of the food-stuffs sometimes predominate in a single food.
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With the Irish, feeling and passion predominate; reason must bow before them.
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Hence a fresh weight has only been thrown into the preponderating scale.
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It has several thousand inhabitants, the foreign element preponderating, we should judge.
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She was coloured, but of mixed race, the European element evidently preponderating.
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Why therefore should I-oranyone-offerto discriminate?-since evil is always the preponderating factor.
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For others, again, it is the capillary phenomena which here act a preponderating part.
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When he ascended the throne Germany's position on the continent was preponderant.
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Among the most important factors of history one was preponderant-thefactor of beliefs.
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The southern stock, including settlers from Kentucky and Tennessee, was the preponderant class.
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Turkey must become a really Mohammedan country, and Moslem influence must be preponderant.
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S: Then as for him whose good deeds are preponderant, these are the successful.
Usage of overriding in English
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But the principle of independence would be the overriding issue, scholars said.
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Security has been an overriding concern for the government and Games' organisers.
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Security has been an overriding concern for the government and Games' organizers.
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That is largely true, with fears about terrorism overriding concerns about privacy.
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The insanity defense is based on one overriding concept in jurisprudence: responsibility.
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This carbon-chain structure has one overriding consequence: lipids can't dissolve in water.
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What was the overriding sentiment from the public in the days following?
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The rest of the game is consumed with one overriding concern: escape.
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Luce began to wonder whether Francesca was responsible for the overriding tranquility.
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The overriding narrative around the crisis can go one of two ways.
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But there is one overriding issue no one seems to have considered.
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The overriding concern of his workers was not to run him out.
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Her overriding interest was in operatic memorabilia, in the sense of clothes.
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Mr Gray did not want the overriding powers to be too draconian.
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The overriding fact that hit her was that the pain was gone.
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We don't willy-nilly make person-specific queries unless there's an overriding security reason.
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Overriding through the time
Overriding across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common