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Our overriding mantra is to be customer champion.
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If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.
Christa Mcauliffe / Teacher
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The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
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I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.
David Lowery /
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Trump's overriding accomplishment is plain: The Republican Party can no longer be shamed.
Richard Cohen /
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I always find my emotions all over the map, not so much a single thing overriding the rest.
Aesop Rock / Hip-Hop Artist
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I'm a very changeable character. I don't think I've got one style of music that is overriding to me.
Leo Sayer /
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Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.
Willy Bogner, Jr. / Ski Racer
Quality
Happy People
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The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests.
Robert Rinder /
Court
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The overriding goal of counterinsurgency is to make friends: You make friends with the people; you isolate the insurgents.
Dexter Filkins / Journalist
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One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.
Andrew Gross / Author
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
Paul Auster / Author
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With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.
Glenn Kelman /
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World New Way
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Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.
Lee Kuan Yew / Singaporean Politician
Media
News
News Media
Primacy
Purpose
Singapore
Elected
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I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.
James Corden / Actor
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Might
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I have this overriding principle that streetwear could end up like disco: that it will be perceived well at the time but doesn't age well at all.
Virgil Abloh /
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Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
Henry Paulson / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
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Failing
Financial
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Taxpayers
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Anyone who plays professional sport for a living is extremely lucky, and that's my overriding feeling - I believe I have the best job in the world!
Toni Duggan /
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I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Exercise
Lying
Utilitarian
Workout
Absolute
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The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.
Stuart Wilde / Writer
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Optimistic
Emotional
Investing
Release
Wealth
Invest
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I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills.
Sarah Hall / Novelist
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Impulse
Motivated
Sensible
Accumulate
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Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
Tracy Chapman / Singer-Songwriter
Approach
Connections
Song
Trying
Concept
Represent
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
Rahm Emanuel / Mayor Of Chicago
Angst
Gratification
Psychological
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I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding look and sound.
Charli Xcx / Singer-Songwriter
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Seventies
Love Time Look
Mix
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The avoidance of explicit ethical judgments leads political scientists to one overriding implicit value judgment - that in favor of the political status quo as it happens to prevail in any given society.
Murray Rothbard / Economist
Avoidance
Ethical
Explicit
Implicit
Status Quo
Favor
Judgments
Overriding
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The enemy capture of female soldiers during a hot war will in fact provoke even greater than usual political pressure to quickly rescue them, if necessary overriding sounder but more time-consuming strategies.
Heather Mac Donald /
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The biggest hits - be they Coca-Cola or Doritos - owe their success to complex formulas that pique the taste buds enough to be alluring but don't have a distinct, overriding single flavor that tells the brain to stop eating.
Michael Moss / Reporter
Alluring
Brain
Coca Cola
Eating
Flavor
Formulas
Taste
Biggest
Buds
Complex
Distinct
Hits
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It was a really lucky childhood and while, yeah, there were bits of darkness, which is known about because my mother has made no bones about her struggle with depression, the overriding memory of it is a very happy, good one.
Sophie Dahl / Author
Depression
Bits
Bones
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The two principal parks in Alaska are Denali and Glacier Bay. Tourism is just overriding the protection of resources that tourists want to see. We have too many tourists in Denali and too many big cruise ships in Glacier Bay.
Michael Frome /
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Cruise
Parks
Principal
Protection
Resources
Ships
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
Daniel Ellsberg /
War
Changed
Feelings
Left
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Revulsion
Weapons
Life War Me
Since
Iota
Objective
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I don't really hear much music these days that grabs me. I think there are a lot of reasons for this but the overriding one is that there aren't as many opportunities for a band to get good or experiment or start the next wave of something.
Ronnie James Dio / Vocalist
Wave
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What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.
Michael Connelly / Author
Good Character
Willing
Generally
Harry
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Readers
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The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.
Greg Anderson /
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Creating
Each Day
Joy
Law
Miraculous
Renewal
Single
Wellness
Job
Living
Act
Living Life
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The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.
Rupert Graves / Film Actor
Acting
Groove
Sometimes
Trying
Life Moment Me
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And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.
Mary Tyler Moore / Actress
Audience
Character
Honestly
Compromising
Watch
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I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me feel awful, because I am there with my wife and she has gone out and bought a dress. And it is my big night and I won, and yet the overriding experience was that of nastiness.
Michael Mcintyre / Stand-Up Comedian
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Expense
Few People
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I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a lawyer. Even a first-year law student learns that an overriding principle is that parliament is sovereign.
Gina Miller /
Lawyer
Parliament
Pretence
Sovereign
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When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, 'Look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author.'
Sophie Kinsella / Author
Concern
Determined
Middle Aged
Tennis
Life Look People
Life Look My Life
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