(v. t. & i.) To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Barbara Frost, WaterAid’s chief executive, said: “We welcome the agreement, the work of member state negotiators to get here and, most significantly, the overarching commitment to end extreme poverty through sustainable development by 2030.” Dominic Haslam, director of policy at Sightsavers, applauded the goals for including specific targets to improve access to employment, education and transport for people with disabilities.
(2) The two sides announced a renewed intention of convening a Geneva 2 conference to seek an overarching peace deal in Syria.
(3) Yet, an overarching feature of these characteristics is their interdependency.
(4) Of five “overarching” priorities listed, the first is “to satisfy Israeli security concerns related to the use of construction and dual use material, particularly as related to the monitoring and tracking of material for large-scale works”.
(5) It is not hyperbole to say that the sentiment expressed by Cooke is the overarching belief system of the US political and media class, the primary premise shaping political discourse.
(6) But aides insist that while the party's tone may have changed – a byproduct of being forced to grow up abruptly – its overarching objective remains the same: abolition of the memorandum outlining the terms of Athens's bailout and renegotiation of the loan agreement it has signed with its partners.
(7) The code states that there is an overarching duty on ministers to comply with the law, including international law and treaty obligations and to uphold the administration of justice and to protect the integrity of public life.” It is not clear whether or not the attorney general was informed about the changes to the ministerial code at the time of his speech.
(8) If an overarching goal for Kenya is to cultivate a knowledge economy, then more avenues of obtaining this knowledge need to be opened up for young mothers, a group that can contribute substantially to development efforts if given access to education.
(9) By new circumstances I mean, for example: First, the end of the cold war left the world without an overarching narrative of good and evil and created a free market in ideas in which any group that is sufficiently assertive and has access to media can communicate its prescriptions for the common good.
(10) The panel also got a rare public appearance from the leader of the Joint Special Operations Command, army Lieutenant General Joseph Votel, nominated for elevation to run the overarching US Special Operations Command.
(11) This initial description of the APP presents the overarching ecological-developmental framework and guiding questions, as well as initial findings central to the tenets of community psychology.
(12) As a youngster, he'd been involved in CND and anti-apartheid campaigns; now he formalised his leftwing politics into an overarching Marxist philosophy.
(13) We agree to effectively implement the Istanbul Programme of Action and to fully integrate its priority areas into the framework for action, the broader implementation of which will contribute to the IPOA's overarching goal of enabling half of LDCs to meet the criteria of graduation by 2020.
(14) However, Sants said he would be working to make sure the EU avoided setting up an overarching new supervisory body for financial markets that was out of touch with what was happening on the ground.
(15) We affirm that there are different approaches, visions, models and tools available to each country, in accordance with its national circumstances and priorities, to achieve sustainable development in its three dimensions which is our overarching goal.
(16) The overarching English baccalaureate will be made up of individual EBacc exams initially in English, maths and the option of three separate sciences from September 2015 for examination two years later.
(17) Too few discerned any overarching sense of where Labour wanted to take Britain.
(18) Hewson said: “This outcome was primarily due to the CEO’s overarching accountability for the five fatalities that occurred during 2015.
(19) This study compared the teaching effectiveness of two approaches to curriculum organization-the body-systems approach (which organizes the nursing curriculum in terms of the different systems of the body) and the conceptual approach (which organizes the nursing curriculum in terms of overarching principles or concepts).
(20) The British royal family exercises an overarching power over all branches in the political system of the country, including the government and the parliament, as well as on Ofcom."
Overmarch
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching.