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Rhys Ifans is a bit overwhelming as the truly unhinged Jed.
By issuing it, the IMF compromised on an economic principle that enjoys overwhelming academic support: The confidence “fairy” does not exist.
But the incentives to escape the resource trap are weakened by the overwhelming importance of the resource rents to the wider political elite.
Seven years ago, prior to the global financial crisis, the overwhelming consensus among economists was that, in retrospect, Japan’s expected convergence in productivity levels to America’s Pacific coast was not in the cards.
Nor could Israel, with its overwhelming technological advantage, defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The imperative for large-scale coordinated action is overwhelming.
But the overwhelming military presence in government ministries and institutions, state-owned companies, provincial governments, and private businesses remains intact.
To protect the oil fields and other facilities, the Americans dedicated a massive, overwhelming force of soldiers and private contractors.
In the face of such overwhelming hardship, I am more angry than sad.
The world is warming, and overwhelming scientific evidence confirms that humans caused most of that change over the last few decades.
With most of the refugees originating in the Middle East – especially Syria, but also Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya – the fact that the region is shouldering the overwhelming share of the burden is not surprising.
The response so far has been overwhelming; tens of thousands have taken the pledge to defend the defenseless.
The White House did all it could for eight years to hide the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are contributing to climate change.
Free trade would lead to an overwhelming boost to welfare everywhere, but especially in the developing world.
An overwhelming number of Burma’s Buddhist monks have found it difficult to bear the central and regional governments’ efforts to corrupt their monastic orders, and to misuse the example of the monks’ self-restraint to increase the pressure on other believers.
An overwhelming majority of Cypriots are unhappy with the status quo, believe a settlement is possible, and reject any return to violence, but are deeply distrustful of each other and of the peace process.
This kind of warfare emerged largely in response to America’s overwhelming conventional military advantage after the Soviet Union’s collapse, underscored by its victory in the 1991 Iraq War, with only 148 American casualties, and its intervention in the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, in which no American lives were lost.
This reflects an overwhelming consensus among scientists from around the world.
In the absence of concerted international action, the US and Europe have largely weighed in with vocal condemnation of the party committing the overwhelming number of human-rights violations: Assad and his henchmen.
Indeed, the overwhelming majority of African rulers regard their countries as their personal possessions, to be used as they see fit.
The first was UK citizens’ overwhelming rejection of their country’s net fiscal transfer to the rest of the EU, which currently amounts to 0.4% of GDP.
This is not the first time that developing countries have faced the challenges of managing pro-cyclical hot capital, but the magnitudes this time are overwhelming.
In the longer run, the absence of the US from the Middle East will probably serve to prolong the chaos and destruction that has defined this decade, with intensifying – and increasingly overwhelming – repercussions for Europe.
While the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants are working to support their families and improve the lives of their children, some commit serious crimes or belong to violent gangs.
Likewise, the three million Sudeten Germans felt much greater loyalty to Germany than to Czechoslovakia, and an overwhelming majority embraced their incorporation into the Third Reich.
In today’s Germany, an overwhelming majority subscribes to the proposition that 8 May 1945 was a day of liberation – not only for Europe, but also for Germany itself.
With respect to other goods, including computers, Chinese-made products are set to replace Mexican output in overwhelming numbers.
For decades, an overwhelming majority of Europeans have lived in peaceful democratic states that uphold their fundamental rights.
Deals do require compromises, but no deal will stick if the compromises by one side seem so overwhelming that the resulting agreement is perceived as unjust.
As in Hong Kong, investors will argue that, in a recession, the temptation to devalue your way out of it is just too overwhelming.
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