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Example sentences for: overwhelm

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The creation of Lake Nasser as a consequence of the building of the Aswan High Dam caused many social and political concerns, not least because the waters were due to overwhelm a number of important ancient monuments.
This was a gruesome farce, and the United States should have acted much earlier, with substantial firepower, to overwhelm the Bosnian Serb leadership.
Don't expect the path forward to be smooth but don't let the obstacles overwhelm you.
Doing so for all rules, they said, could overwhelm the agencies' systems; may be unnecessary for some relatively uncontroversial rules; and may be a less effective use of the agency's resources than more traditional methods (e.g.
The Times describes how the largest crowd Clinton ever spoke to--some half a million Ghanians--surged against the barricades, threatening to "overwhelm the president."