Given the overriding need to cut the budget deficit, the administration will ask congress for only $15 million this summer.考虑到当务之急是削减预算赤字, 今年夏天政府只计划向国会申请1,500万美元的预算。

a question of overriding importance重大问题

My overriding concern is to raise the standards of state education.我最关心的是提高国民教育水平。