Sentence examples for comprised overwhelmingly from inspiring English sources

Unlike the Iraqi security forces, comprised overwhelmingly of Arab Iraqis and nominally loyal to the Baghdad government, the peshmerga have stood and fought the better-armed Isis, although they fell back to the regional capital of Irbil after an Isis push last week to threaten the autonomous provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan.

At the time, the 45th Infantry Division was comprised overwhelmingly of high school students or recent graduates and only about 60 percent of its divisional troops had conducted training and drills with the division for a year or more.

Of all the network types this cluster was the most family-focused: older people with these networks were least likely to participate in social groups or community meetings, and networks were comprised overwhelmingly of kin members with only around one-tenth of non-kin network members.

US officials said last week the Manbij operation would be overwhelmingly comprised of Syrian Arab fighters.

The crowd is diverse in age, ethnicity, and political views, but is overwhelmingly comprised of students.

The coalition that supported Chavez included militant trade unionists and left-wing activists, but overwhelmingly it comprised thousands of poor Venezuelans who had never taken part in politics before.

Travis said it was unlikely the issue would be a priority among Republicans during their primary, which overwhelmingly comprises white voters.

Alumni overwhelmingly comprise the majority of trustees.

They bear as tenuous a relation to reality as Israel's insistence back in the 1980s that the overwhelmingly nonviolent First Intifada comprised a "campaign of terror" by "mobs," or, more recently, its repeated denials that the Israeli military deployed white phosphorus in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.

As David Campbell and Robert Putnam's research showed, the Tea Party is comprised primarily of highly partisan Republicans who are overwhelmingly white, unified in holding immigrants and blacks in low regard, and disproportionately socially conservative.

At this time, blacks comprised 30 percent of the state's population, and they were overwhelmingly enslaved.