Sentence examples for deluging from inspiring English sources

In Estonia's case, "botnets" (swarms of computers hijacked by surreptitiously placed code, usually spread by spam) swamped sites by deluging them with bogus requests for information.

By deluging threads like Iranelection with cries of support for the protesters, Americans and Britons rendered the site almost useless as a source of information something that Iran's government had tried and failed to do.

Trial lawyers have been deluging courts in these two states.

Similarly, when Hurricane Katrina swept across America's Gulf coast on August 29th 2005, deluging New Orleans and making more than 1m people homeless, the world realised that nature could smite a rich country as easily as a poor one.An equally sobering lesson, though, had come just a month earlier, on July 26th, when 994mm (over three feet) of rain had fallen in 24 hours on Mumbai.

But out of fear of the consequences, or residual loyalty, almost all Cubans still seem unwilling to go beyond grumbling or deluging the ombudsman with complaints.

Other websites explained how to write simple programs to send a flood of requests, or offered specially formatted webpages that could be set to reload themselves continuously, deluging particular Georgian websites with traffic.The actual damage done was minimal: some e-mail was disrupted and some target sites were rendered unavailable to the public.

However, led by Paul Dacre, the editor in chief of the Daily Mail, many editors are nervous about accepting complaints from people other than the subjects of news stories on any issue other than factual accuracy because they fear being deluged by pressure groups.

But the private pension funds are unpopular with the public.If the law is passed, account holders will deluge the courts with lawsuits, as happened when bank deposits were frozen during the 2001 collapse.

Local governments were deluged with money, especially the 13 regions that receive an earmarked 50% share of the income tax paid by mining and oil companies.

When news leaked out that one of Mr Skok's customers, Netscape, had taken a small stake in AlphaBlox, Mr Skok found himself deluged with job applications and breakfast invitations.Polese make me richMs Polese used to be in charge of marketing Sun Micro systems' Java software project.

To make matters worse for the airport owner, the Competition Commission, deluged with complaints from airlines and passengers alike about BAA's poor performance, is investigating a possible break-up of the company.