"Unfortunately, there's no overarching plan that's designed to create some stability."

He needed to figure out the overarching plan of the thinking machines.

The hierarchical definition of plans itself implies a kind of temporal persistence, since the overarching plan remains in effect while subsidiary plans are being executed.

Adding Comcast's subscribers to that overarching plan would be another coup.

"We now have an overarching plan and quantifiable goals."

NS Power, by contrast, had no such overarching plan and fell under increasing criticism, especially during the 2009 election for that.

Thus, with Nakayama's permission, he developed a new overarching plan for the school, library, and other Tenrikyo buildings surrounding the Residence.

And is the Pentagon leadership developing an overarching plan that combinees the services effectively, or are the services' spending plans being prepared in isolation??

Without such an overarching plan, he wrote, worthwhile ambitions can "end up abandoned in frustration or done poorly."

"When you read the overarching plans for the testing, people were to be protected," he said in an interview.