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The attacks on 9/11 demonstrated that even the most robust emergency response capabilities can be overwhelmed if an attack is large enough.
For the truly poor, meaning they earn no more than $11,075 a year, there are government-financed legal aid agencies to turn to, 172 in all, but these offices are so overwhelmed that only one in five people who qualify for help actually gets any.
And when New Year's arrives and she experiences that brief sense of being overwhelmed by something she can't explain, she'll be tempted to dismiss it, as she does every year, as sentimental and superstitious.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 overwhelmed the response capacity of most of the local jurisdictions where the hijacked airliners crashed.
2.25), as he relates what the “little baggage” did to the Transylvanian in the brothel, Boult says that “she quickly pooped him,” meaning that she overwhelmed him.