"The problem was that you had people making decisions about the use of university resources who didn't have an overall perspective," he said.

The book's one major shortcoming is lack of overall perspective.

Gaining an overall perspective is an important task when encountering a new topic.

"Looking at it from an overall perspective, it does give you objectivity."

The university has taken an overall perspective of development plan.

Nevertheless, an overall perspective is useful, even when rather imprecise.

"From an overall perspective, the high rate of divorce represents a kind of social advancement."

It's great to see there are some tangible and measureable benefits to cycling from an overall economic perspective.

It stresses the need to see the issue in an overall perspective.

But Perry seemed to have the best overall perspective.