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If you look at the downside of globalization, it really does seem to be sometimes overwhelming.
This work was recently published in "Nature Communications," and my team and I received an overwhelming response from around the world.
As the number of Alzheimer's patients triples by the year 2050, caring for them, as well as the rest of the aging population, will become an overwhelming societal challenge.
The scope and scale of the problem seems so large that it feels overwhelming to think about how we might approach it.
The Arab states are going through tremendous change, and the struggles women face are overwhelming.
(Rainforest noises) In the summer of 2011, as a tourist, I visited the rainforests of Borneo for the very first time, and as you might imagine, it was the overwhelming sounds of the forest that struck me the most.
This is the same for us when we help refugees, people displaced within their country by conflict, or stateless persons, I know many people, when they are confronted by overwhelming suffering, they feel powerless and they stop there.
I know that the scale of antibiotic resistance seems overwhelming, but if you've ever bought a fluorescent lightbulb because you were concerned about climate change, or read the label on a box of crackers because you think about the deforestation from palm oil, you already know what it feels like to take a tiny step to address an overwhelming problem.
So we marvel now at those odds, the overwhelming odds, and the amazing thing is that within the next decade, the GMT may be able to take spectra of the atmospheres of those planets, and determine whether or not they have the potential for life.
Why, if this is so obvious, why is it that for the overwhelming majority of people on the planet, the work they do has none of the characteristics that get us up and out of bed and off to the office every morning?
The al-Qaeda-linked website that first showed Nick Berg's beheading had to close down within a couple of days due to overwhelming traffic to the site.
My new world was really exciting but often quite overwhelming and frightening.
Since that time, an overwhelming amount of evidence has come to light that shows us just how different men and women are in every way.
What is new is how these realities are hidden and how people are made invisible in an age of global and overwhelming communication and exchange.
And in this age, where everything seems mapped, measured and studied, in this age of information, I remind you all that discoveries are not just made in the black void of the unknown but in the white noise of overwhelming data.
In practice, geography means that countries proximate the conflict take the overwhelming majority of the world's refugees.
This evidence is overwhelming at this point.
The overwhelming thing that we need to appreciate is the choice that China has made.
What we found was an overwhelming sense of helplessness.
The exercise was a fascinating testament to the kaleidoscope that is life, and even more fascinating was the fact that the overwhelming majority of obituaries featured people famous and non-famous, who did seemingly extraordinary things.
In spite of overwhelming grief and terror, I left Westboro in 2012.
The first thing you learn is the overwhelming importance of hands.
DB: I mean, most American universities, especially elite universities, are overwhelmingly on the left, and there's just an ease of temptation to use your overwhelming cultural power to try to enforce some sort of thought that you think is right and correct thought.
And it was overwhelming, but it was also wonderful.
But if they don't stay in Paris, the international pressure will be overwhelming.
It creates an overwhelming sense of uncertainty and anxiety, and so, we let the future just happen to us.
Their analysis uncovered three common feelings: first, a greater appreciation for Earth's beauty; second, an increased sense of connection to all other living beings; and third, an unexpected, often overwhelming sense of emotion.
Three years ago, I set off on my own mission: to see if I could bring this feeling of overwhelming scale and beauty to many more people just by using one small computer in my small New York City apartment.
There's so many books offering all kinds of conflicting advice, it can be really overwhelming.
You see, this was at the height of the Black Lives Matter furor and people seemed to be turning to me to articulate their viewpoints, and honestly, it was sort of overwhelming.
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