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The US deploys overwhelming firepower, either directly or by arming opposition groups, shatters local governmental structures, and then pulls out, leaving the country in shambles.
Morocco’s evolutionary approach to improving the country’s well-being – quietly and resolutely building on the political, economic, and social reforms launched more than a decade ago – is backed by an overwhelming majority of citizens.
He also points out that in the AIIB, where China is expected to have overwhelming voting power, “Asian countries, especially China and India, will procure funding for their own infrastructure.”
In light of this danger, the overwhelming interest of Russian democrats and Western policy makers is to support Russia's honest, democratic reformers.
The overwhelming evidence is that the lion’s share of productivity gains in the last 30 years has gone to the very rich.
Fortunately, it is not too late, but an effective response must be immediate, overwhelming, and free of the ideological rivalries that have enfeebled the eurozone since the common currency was launched.
For the US, suspending joint military exercises with South Korea seems like a small price to pay for such an outcome, as it would do little to undercut America’s overwhelming military superiority.
Despite the NPT's shortcomings, the overwhelming majority of non-nuclear states fully comply with their Treaty obligations.
When polled, most older white voters overwhelming reject Obama, even if many of them are unhappy with Bush.
An overwhelming sense of inferiority, and our efforts to deny it, inspired the most scandalous aspects of Ukrainian political life.
In defiance of overwhelming global opposition, not to mention past United Nations General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, Trump announced that the US will officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Watson tried to clarify his remarks in a subsequent interview in The Independent, saying:The overwhelming desire of society today is to assume that equal powers of reason are a universal heritage of humanity.
The unfettered creation of money by large private banks has generated overwhelming instability, undermining the fundamental principle that money creation should serve the public good.
And market forces alone are unable to cope with major externalities such as greenhouse-gas emissions, with overwhelming government control over major energy sources such as oil, and with huge numbers of people too poor to constitute a market.
The loss went well beyond the cutback in military expenditures, overwhelming the civilian industrial and agricultural sectors.
The dominant ideology of government non-intervention naturally intensifies resistance to change among the losers from globalization and technology, and creates overwhelming problems in sequencing economic reforms.
Other gurus predicted that China had an overwhelming advantage and would eventually suck all trade-related jobs out of Mexico.
His constraints were overwhelming: antiquated technology, deteriorating or non-existent physical infrastructure, and an anachronistic health bureaucracy.
Each of the four faced what many deemed overwhelming odds.
Danish newspapers – coincidentally in the native country of the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes – happily quoted the WWF regarding the event’s overwhelming success.
And now, with the anti-austerity Syriza party’s overwhelming election victory, Greek voters have declared that they have had enough.
While most of the Court's analysis focused on domestic considerations, the Justices also invoked a legal brief filed by the European Union that described the overwhelming disapproval of the practice in the world community.
Nonetheless, given Clinton’s organizational advantages (particularly the overwhelming support of other Democratic officeholders), only some dramatic and unforeseeable development could block her path to the party’s nomination.
Moreover, the social and political backlash eventually will become overwhelming.
The Resurrection of CongressNEW DELHI – The overwhelming victory of the Indian National Congress in elections in the important southern state of Karnataka in early May has shaken up the country’s political scene.
He claimed that globalization and mass immigration are destroying jobs, overwhelming public services, compromising French national identity, and breeding terrorists.
When I served in 1995 on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific group that periodically assesses the science of global warming, there was overwhelming evidence that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had increased markedly since the beginning of the industrial revolution, that human activity had contributed significantly to those increases, and that they would have profound effects on climate and sea levels.
In some sense, his sudden death seems to symbolize the helplessness of a desperate leader confronting overwhelming challenges.
Nepal's Remarkable PeaceKATMANDU – Nepal’s Maoist leader, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as “Prachanda,” has now been sworn in as the first prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, having won an overwhelming vote in the Constituent Assembly elected in April.
In the Israel-Palestine conflict, the historical narratives are overwhelming, and the geography is small, so details cannot be glossed over.
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