Sentence examples for ability to overwhelm from inspiring English sources

"Thirty or forty years ago, terrorists did not have the ability to overwhelm authorities.

Now that Tim Tebow is wearing it, however, it has acquired an almost hypnotic ability to overwhelm reason.

In taking a 28-3 lead into the fourth quarter, the Bears showed an ability to overwhelm on offense as much as stifle on defense.

One of my measuring sticks for the success of the Brooklyn Nets will be their ability to overwhelm the sound and presence of Knicks fans.

The band's ability to overwhelm the senses makes its music satisfying, but that may also be what prevents the group from scoring hits.

Their ability to overwhelm the defenses persuaded the Nixon administration to agree to the ABM treaty and the Ford administration to deactivate the modest missile defense program the treaty permitted.

"Its ability going forward to overwhelm opponents is clearly increasing," he added.

Information about the victims trickled out slowly, partly because the proportions of the events seemed to overwhelm the ability of all systems to cope.

But the system is under increasing strain because of the explosion of human and machine Internet users and because of occasional assaults by automated software programs that threaten to overwhelm the ability to respond to routine requests.

The answer would seem to be that the financial and political power of the big investment banks and the oil and gas industry have grown so large as to overwhelm the ability of government to function in the interests of our society.

In its new report, prepared for a meeting next week of finance ministers from the 20 industrialized and large developing countries, the World Bank warned that the financial disruptions are all but certain to overwhelm the ability of institutions like it and the International Monetary Fund to provide a buffer.