The overriding reason for the investments is to get a head start on learning to manage in a deregulated industry.

Is there some overriding reason to do it this way?

He loves his mother's cooking, he said, but the overriding reason is cultural.

But the overriding reason is a more demanding Japanese consumer.

The overriding reason for a Congressional investigation is the possibility that the truth might be established.

An overriding reason was the poor weather that beset the '86 vintage.

During the past two and a half years, though, the overriding reason for their presence in Congo was to loot its resources.

This is far from an overriding reason to perform his operas in Israel.

An overriding reason is necessary to bring the hero back to the world to save it.

Campaign finance legislation is nearly dead, once again, for a single overriding reason.