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The Moscow elite - economic and political - supported by a large but not overwhelming layer of regional elites, which benefited mightily from "stakhanov" style shock privatization, wants stability and fears most of all a fight over a renewed redistribution of property.
And, while the overwhelming majority of the world’s Muslims are not terrorists, many of the world’s terrorists are Muslim.
The financial implications of ensuring universal energy access are large, but not overwhelming when weighed against the enormous benefits.
The overwhelming majority of Assad’s victims have been killed by conventional, not chemical, weapons.
The EU is undergoing fundamental changes, many of which have gone largely unnoticed, owing to the overwhelming focus on large-scale top-down reforms.
However, in his book Crimes of War , Michael Byers, a Duke University law professor, argues that the use of force in self-defense “must not be unreasonable or excessive,” and with regard to anticipatory action, the necessity must be “instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment of deliberation.”
Actually, that overwhelming similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA is a product of two cultural facts: our familiarity with the chimpanzee’s body, and our unfamiliarity with DNA.
In other words, this apparent fact of nature – the overwhelming genetic similarity of human and ape – is a fact constructed from culture.
When faced with acute, seemingly overwhelming threats like Islamic terrorism, Russian adventurism, and demagogic populism, the best refuge can be fundamental principles and values – complemented by a little common sense.
I dare anyone to claim that the overwhelming bulk of that disparity springs from causes other than history and the current state of governance.
By contrast, in the northeastern state of Manipur, Congress was expected to yield ground to critics of its long-serving chief minister, Okram Ibobi Singh, who instead pulled off an overwhelming victory.
Even the overwhelming military strength of the US only bears on those international situations which have the potential to turn into military conflicts; in all others -- the vast majority -- missiles and aircraft carriers retain little impact.
In particular, the temptation for governments to use inflation to reduce the real value of public and private debts may become overwhelming.
Ironically, Trump, the self-declared outsider who lost the popular vote and squeaked into office by winning the Electoral College, finds himself, for the moment, in some ways more protected than the party man Nixon, who won the 1972 election by overwhelming popular as well as electoral margins.
Both of these complaints reflect a third: unease with the Court’s overwhelming focus on Africa.
When the evidence of these excesses became overwhelming, new credit stopped flowing, making it impossible to service existing debts.
To many Arabs across the region, American reliance on overwhelming military force to achieve its stated goal of spreading democracy is an inherent contradiction.
That task seemed overwhelming.
Are security and political interests so overwhelming that they justify assuming large and unlimited liabilities incurred by political systems over which they have no control?
In short, because the availability of government support depends on achieving seemingly precise targets, the incentive to aim for apparent rather than real success becomes an almost overwhelming temptation.
They might point out that Trump lost the popular vote and hence can hardly claim an overwhelming democratic mandate, but the result is what it is.
While it is too early to assess its overall performance, the overwhelming sentiment across India so far is one of disappointment.
Overall, there is overwhelming evidence that trade has indeed enriched developing countries where supportive policies have been in place.
Although the overwhelming majority of Palestinians reject the use of force to settle this power struggle, many welcome the change in Gaza, where Hamas has cleared the streets of armed militias and restored some law and order.
It believes that operational military capability is a condition of power – a view that is not shared by the overwhelming majority of European states, which continue to display a collective aversion to war.
And, despite the United Nations Security Council’s paralysis over Syria, UN General Assembly member states made clear their continuing overwhelming acceptance of the responsibility to protect those at risk of mass-atrocity crimes.
The overwhelming majority of the studies found a strong positive effect.
An overwhelming majority of scientists agree that the climate is changing – and that human activity, including carbon dioxide emissions, plays a role.
For starters, there remains an overwhelming disparity between the US and Russia on non-strategic nuclear weapons in Europe, with roughly 200 for the former and an estimated 2,000 for the latter.
Since these claims would probably be lost should the euro collapse, the political pressure to give way finally to Eurobonds is becoming overwhelming.
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