The moment Penance wakes up, her overriding desire is to be free.

They said their overriding desire had been to save an insurer that looked as if it had "lived past its nine lives."

My overriding desire at this point was not to do any more paddling.

People with an overriding desire to be widely known to strangers are different from those who primarily covet wealth and influence.

Bissett dropped out of both universities because of an overriding desire to live as a free agent, writer and painter unencumbered by any academic constraints.

But inside the conservative movement, as in the Republican Party more broadly, there is an overriding desire to win in November.

What was her overriding desire?

A1 Conservatives who would ordinarily prefer the convention have a harder edge are holding back out of an overriding desire to win in November.

Once, the incentive to do so was an overriding desire to avoid the shame that neighbours would heap on those deemed to have behaved badly.