Sentence examples for attempt to overwhelm from inspiring English sources
I explain that our programme is basically an attempt to overwhelm our negative interactions with positive ones.
So it is with League of Legends, a game in which two teams attempt to overwhelm one another.
Government security officers tried to stanch the flow of information by blocking individual Twitterers, while opposition supporters urged #IranElection followers to change their profile settings to the Tehrān time zone in an attempt to overwhelm government filters.
The country's National Cyber Security Centre said it had seen signs of a "denial-of-service" attack, in which large numbers of computers try to connect to a site at the same time in an attempt to overwhelm the server.
In late November 1946 French naval vessels bombarded Haiphong, causing several thousand civilian casualties; the subsequent Viet Minh attempt to overwhelm French troops in Hanoi in December is generally considered to be the beginning of the First Indochina War.
In fact, officials say, before the collision, the administration was leaning toward selling Taiwan Kidd-class destroyers, which have less capable weapon systems than the Aegis, and deferring any decision on the Aegis system, which the Chinese say they would attempt to overwhelm with more weaponry of their own.
But to put the matter in perspective, Kasparov's wild, swashbuckling attempts to overwhelm his opponent earlier in the match had also come in for criticism.
Instead of attempting to overwhelm visitors with a gargantuan display of the 20,000 or so examples of Japanese art in the museum collection, emphasis was placed on the individual works, and each has been given sufficient space to breathe in.
Meanwhile, some observers expressed concern that U.S. strategy centred primarily on attempts to overwhelm al-Qaeda militarily was ineffectual, and at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, al-Qaeda was thought to have reached its greatest strength since the attacks of September 2001.
Certain recognizable elements persist, despite Twombly's attempts to overwhelm them with the shuddering disruptions of his scribbles.
