There is no overriding goal for him anymore.
His overriding goal is to understand the nature of the physical world, so as to control it too.
Having his own business was an overriding goal, he said, and importing seemed an attractive way to achieve that.
Corporate success in global competition has become an overriding goal, even at the price of greater wage inequality or leaving some groups behind.
He said his overriding goal would remain the same.
That is an overriding goal and a daunting task in the nation's most densely populated state.
Kidd said winning a championship was still his overriding goal.
"My overriding goal was to help the university and its student body," he said.
Now that the single overriding goal had been removed from their lives, what did each of them really want?
An overriding goal of a united Germany will therefore remain to project stability eastward.