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The trouble is that complexity can be overwhelming, so people often prefer to break down complex systems into individual components.
Just a week ago, Clinton seemed to be heading toward an overwhelming victory.
France wields overwhelming political clout in its former African colonies, including veto power over the franc zone’s two central banks.
Even before the leftist Syriza party’s overwhelming victory in Greece’s recent general election, it was obvious that, far from being over, the crisis was threatening to worsen.
Individuals who display such behavior are often masking intolerable feelings of powerlessness, inadequacy, and an overwhelming need for approval that can curdle into violent destructiveness under pressure.
Herein lies the second lesson of Nagasaki’s history: the overwhelming threat posed by nuclear weapons.
Media coverage fueled a backlash of overwhelming public revulsion.
It is true that Palestinians, who comprised the vast majority of the population and owned an overwhelming share of the land, were unhappy with the partition plan, which awarded them 46% of mandatory Palestine.
When technological progress and globalization, not to mention social and cultural change, outpace people’s ability to adapt, they become too jarring, disruptive, and overwhelming.
Hope for a better future has returned, reflected in the French public’s overwhelming support for Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
In Africa, too, a mix of poor governance, low economic growth, and terrorism, civil war, or both is overwhelming many countries.
Although the schedule for my most recent trip was overwhelming, and offered little real contact with ordinary people, I could still grasp – from daily newspapers, TV programs, and conversations with friends – the profound economic, political, and moral crisis engulfing the country.
Polls show that an overwhelming majority of Turks respect the army only when it stays within its barracks.
While voters wisely prefer that he and his cabinet, rather than the conservative opposition, implement a program that an overwhelming majority of Greeks detest, the reality of the austerity agenda will test public patience.
The human and material forces arrayed against Tibet are overwhelming.
If expectations of disaster build, and a growing number of players start positioning themselves to protect themselves, the consequences could become overwhelming.
Considering them together, my overwhelming thought is that the Friedmans would find their task of justifying and advocating small-government libertarianism much harder today than they did in 1979.
Within Eastern Europe, capital has sought out the countries with the most rapid growth, following the overwhelming pattern in emerging markets.
In short, there are overwhelming reasons to expect a steady decrease in the crime rate in all democracies in the region with sufficiently far-reaching reforms.
Even before the invasion, there was overwhelming evidence that Bush was lying.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, those resources fall far short of what is required to successfully intervene in a crisis.
Our research noted that feelings of guilt and helplessness can be overwhelming when events “transgress personal moral and ethical values or codes of conduct.”
The challenges the world faces may appear overwhelming, but the job of its citizens is simple: engage.
So, in defiance of overwhelming evidence, the IMF now wants to target the remaining sector, pensions, where massive cuts – more than 40% in many cases – have already been made.
The public reaction was overwhelming.
Still, an overwhelming majority of German (and possibly Dutch and Finnish) economists seem to favor keeping the ECB on the sidelines in the eurozone crisis.
In 1984, Reagan won an overwhelming reelection victory.
But the lessons of the past seem to be too distant in policymakers’ minds these days, whereas domestic political pressure to put national economies first appears overwhelming.
Moreover, the overwhelming majority of countries that have ever considered legalizing it have eventually rejected the idea outright and have no plans to change their position.
There are no doubt many reasons for the SNP’s overwhelming triumph, but support for austerity is not one of them.
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