Sentence examples for before being overwhelmed from inspiring English sources

They battled to contain the fire for four hours, before being overwhelmed.

Fingers were crossed that he was not going to be another of those English teenage prodigies whose talent ignites the imagination before being overwhelmed by the pressures of a big club.

And we need to understand that flood defences are still doing their job if they delay the flooding before being overwhelmed by it, as happened in several places this weekend.

In 1954, in an effort to keep the cause of Puerto Rican independence visible, four more of Albizu Campos's followers entered the U.S. Capitol and opened fire on congressmen there, wounding five of them before being overwhelmed by police.

It appeared he would have to withdraw from the tournament, but he decided to continue after receiving painkilling injections and reached the final before being overwhelmed by his fellow Spaniard Albert Costa.

The specimens are beautifully preserved and while it is not exactly clear what killed and buried them, they were apparently able to move at least a little initially before being overwhelmed as they have managed to climb on top of one another.

They hang around longer, trying to reconcile their words with the reality in front of them, before eventually being overwhelmed by their temptation for able-bodied human beings.

(Rapold) 'Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment' (No rating, 1 19, in English and Hebrew) The kibbutz movement — utopian, socialist, collective — first symbolized aspirations for a Jewish homeland, then, after Israel's statehood, became an influential force before eventually being overwhelmed by the capitalist society it helped to foster.

(Nicolas Rapold) 'Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment' (No rating, 1 19, in English and Hebrew) The kibbutz movement — utopian, socialist, collective — first symbolized aspirations for a Jewish homeland, then, after Israel's statehood, became an influential force before eventually being overwhelmed by the capitalist society it helped to foster.

(Dargis) ★ 'Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment' (No rating, 1 19, in English and Hebrew) The kibbutz movement — utopian, socialist, collective — first symbolized aspirations for a Jewish homeland, then, after Israel's statehood, became an influential force before eventually being overwhelmed by the capitalist society it helped to foster.

Whittingdale added that Patten's reputation had been damaged by the short-lived appointment of George Entwistle, who lasted just 54 days as BBC director general before resigning after being overwhelmed by the Savile crisis, the £450,000 payoff he received, and the manner in which his successor, Tony Hall, was appointed.