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Smiling readily but somewhat shy about making the first approach, the islanders will often overwhelm you with kindness once contact is made.
At one point, the piece quotes a "Bernadine Dohrn, the director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University" as saying that high rates of prosecution of juveniles overwhelm the courts, "and when you do this wholesale, you drive kids into the system who don't belong there, and you don't find the kids who aren't in school and are getting into serious trouble.
Suffering need not overwhelm.
Press, contends that it was Schulz's "calamitous artistic misjudgment" that allowed Snoopy and cuteness to overwhelm the "left-field" magic that characterized the early strip.
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.