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These reforms reflected an overwhelming consensus that the Fed had been derelict in fulfilling its duties.
A show of overwhelming force might restore calm to the markets.
Regardless of whether we are rich, poor, or in between, we share an overwhelming interest in the MDGs’ success, so that every region trapped in extreme poverty can break free, grow, and prosper.
An overwhelming majority of UN member states, recognizing the unique role UNRWA plays in a volatile region, have consistently recognized the need to provide it with robust financial support.
At the same time, overwhelming majorities of Kurds, Sunnis, and Shi’ites – more than eight out of ten – preferred to be seen as Iraqis first, believing that “Iraq will be a better society if people treat one another as Iraqis.”
There is, in fact, little sympathy for the Greek position in other eurozone countries, where similar referendums would undoubtedly show overwhelming public support for the continuation of the austerity policies imposed on Greece.
Given this history, it is clear that the governments of Sudan and South Sudan, as well as the overwhelming majority of the Sudanese people, have had enough of war and passionately desire peace.
Discipline and restructuring must be imposed on the so called natural monopolies: railways, power utilities and, above all, Gazprom - the country’s largest company, and in which there is overwhelming evidence of theft by managers.
But sometimes this desire seems overwhelming in post-modern democracies everywhere.
Thus, the sheer magnitude of the task of reviving these economies is not overwhelming.
But trade, on balance, has done much more good than harm, and the overwhelming majority of manufacturing-job losses in the developed world have resulted from technological advances like automation.
The overwhelming – and sensible – expectation is that the two parties will compromise and raise the debt ceiling before inflicting serious economic and financial dislocations.
Fortunately, such initiatives under the EU’s Common Defense and Security Policy have the overwhelming support of the European population.
In the 1990’s, following its atrocities in Bosnia, Slobodan Milosevic’s Serb regime abolished Kosovo’s long-standing autonomy, suppressing the rights of the province’s overwhelming Albanian majority.
Despite overwhelming support for this process, methods to do so are absent.
His proposal, which aims to reform the curriculum to include Islamic studies, gender studies, computer science, and English, should receive overwhelming support.
These are very interesting ideas, but the evidence still seems overwhelming that the drag on the global economy mainly reflects the aftermath of a deep systemic financial crisis, not a long-term secular innovation crisis.
In the end, United Russia secured 37% of the vote, with the additional seats it gained in the single-seat constituencies assuring it an overwhelming parliamentary majority.
If the campaign against the Islamic State is defined and conducted with humanitarian protection as its primary and overwhelming objective, it should succeed not only in stopping further atrocities, but also in making large inroads into curbing the wider terrorist threat at its source.
At a cabinet meeting after the vote, he openly suggested that his officials might have been just a little too "proactive" in achieving such overwhelming results.
But if officials falsified 10%, 20%, or even 30% of the ballots--and no one suggests such a level of fraud--the vote in favor of the constitution would still amount to an overwhelming majority of Chechnya's population.
The domestic instruments at their disposal are of limited use in coping with overwhelming global capital flows driven by monetary-policy decisions made in faraway capitals.
They are presumed to be on the verge of winning an overwhelming majority in the parliamentary elections due on December 7, yet like Korzhakov and his clique, they could be routed.
Indeed, the overwhelming evidence currently calls into question the preventive effect of antioxidant pills.
The overwhelming majority of Europeans, however, probably view the USSR’s breakup as a cause for celebration.
Instead, the insecurity is political in origin, with short-term considerations, especially with regard to Russia, overwhelming a coherent energy – and, to some extent, foreign – policy.
Similarly, unlike the Chinese, Indian employers do not come into a foreign country with an overwhelming labor force that lives in ghettoes, or impose their ways of doing things on aid recipients.
Surveys show that only 25% of Venezuelans rate the government as poor or very poor, even though an overwhelming majority rejects the President's penchant for monopolizing the airwaves once a week, displacing their favorite soap operas.
Unfortunately, the global response to this challenge has not been overwhelming.
Their opponents, meanwhile, exaggerated the phenomenon’s likely impact – and, as a consequence, dogmatically fixated on drastic, short-term carbon cuts as the only solution, despite overwhelming evidence that such cuts would be cripplingly expensive and woefully ineffective.
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