This article articulates my main overarching criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Democratic Presidents’ Base Problem] Reference

Not only are questions open, they are not fixed within overarching guideposts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Design Process] Reference

At a macro-level, the government has a large role it has to play to integrate the issue of the environment within overarching development policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beverly Bell: An Alternative Environmental Future for Haiti] Reference

The Europeans seem to think it maybe is more of an "overarching" regulator.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2009] Reference

The "overarching" goal of the strategy, Obama said in a Dec. 1, 2009, speech delivered at the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama says U.S. is 'on track' to achieve goals in Afghanistan] Reference

The rest of the approach is up to you-- that is, if you incorporate some kind of overarching theme or chronology to the list.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

For that stamp to stick, everyone would need to agree on some kind of overarching orthodoxy from which the heretics obviously diverge.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Bidding War for 'Creation?' - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

I've seen some half-hearted attempts at this; for example, San Francisco Opera usually finds some kind of overarching tag line for its summer season.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trojan Wars] Reference

You have to be willing to challenge the theory and be willing to change it when there is disconfirming evidence, but you have to have some kind of overarching theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weapons of Misperception] Reference

I guess the word "overarching" is the thing that has me second.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Webster defines "overarching" as dominating or embracing all else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories] Reference

Star Trek, in spite of it's cozy nerdiness, has always had some kind of overarching vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

The "overarching" goal is to more than double earnings before interest, tax and amortization per share by 2010, the CEO said in an interview at Philips headquarters in Amsterdam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taipei Times] Reference

"like a minister of state in the presidency", with an "overarching" look at government.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He didn't try to reach for lofty visions or overarching themes.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Al Got His Bounce] Reference

One is genuine, overarching talent, which "the Donald" doesn't have.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fame Game: Why Everyone's Gloating] Reference

He says "it's impossible to point to an overarching teen sensibility.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Much Riskier Passage] Reference

The overarching theme of the century's first half was the rise of state power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanfare For The Common Man] Reference

Established to promote local work, the event does not have an overarching theme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Painting The Town] Reference

Trying to glean an overarching message from the merry babel is almost impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Davos] Reference

On the day of his birth, they recalled, three suns appeared in the sky with an overarching rainbow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day Of The Living Buddhas] Reference

I never had this overarching intellectual or artistic viewpoint -- it just happened, like my teaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank McCourt] Reference

Proliferation of nuclear weapons has become an overarching strategic problem for the contemporary world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nuclear Nightmare] Reference

Party leaders need to set up an overarching policy coordination team, just as Democrats did in the 1950s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats Don't Need A New Message--They Need Ideas] Reference

CON: The pilot features a cool, creepy plot, but introduces an overarching mythology that could wear thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Guide to the Fall's Hottest New Shows] Reference

You don't have to be a scientist to appreciate the overarching scientific principles that influence every action of our lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why My Kids Hate Science] Reference

He is right about the need to have an overarching plan for the tumultuous period we are in now and for the foreseeable future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Get Ready, Get Set] Reference

In a celebrity age, without any overarching national crisis, the media (NEWSWEEK included) have established a culture of grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jfk Jr.'S Final Journey] Reference

It is not likely to be remembered for overarching ideas or soaring rhetoric, but it will be recalled for its unsurpassed drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [What A Long, Strange Trip] Reference

In the absence of some overarching plan to reform the post-1945 dispensation, we can at least look for incremental improvements.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Got To Be A Better Way] Reference

It is, in fact, much more challenging than it was even during the cold war, a period defined by an overarching bipolar conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Nation Of ‘Flatlanders’] Reference

But Obama shows every sign of instinctively resisting a paternalistic and overarching public sector as much as most Americans do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Staying Power of the S Word] Reference

But the overarching question — what happened to my baby? — is still impossible to answer, and the anger is real and it's deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stomping Through A Medical Minefield] Reference

With so many fiefdoms, programs and initiatives — and so little overarching leadership — it is hard to tell what has improved.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Forgetting] Reference

In his handling of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, Rumsfeld was motivated by one overarching desire: to prevent a rerun of Vietnam.    From Wordnik.com.  [McNamara, Rumsfeld and the Fog of War] Reference