Sentence examples for expected overwhelming from inspiring English sources

But CWU leaders claimed the offer had "more strings than the philharmonic" and had expected overwhelming support from the union's 160,000 postal workers.

Above all, they were expected to overwhelm and, if possible, drown out any anti-American or anti-imperialist shouts.

The Romney campaign is running commercials this week in five of the state's six media markets at a cost of $1.8 million, an amount expected to overwhelm what the Santorum campaign can put up.

Unlike 2008, a new wave of registered voters is not expected to overwhelm election officials.

At Rzhev, Orel, in Galicia and in Estonia he stymied opponents who expected to overwhelm him, and as late as November 1944, he gave the U.S. 12th Army Group a bloodied nose in the Hürtgen Forest.

Rising sea level not only would increase the frequency and severity of storm surges and coastal flooding, it is expected to overwhelm some low-lying coastal areas and dramatically accelerate erosion.

With thousands of new voters already surging to the polls, with millions of absentee ballots beginning to pour in, and with an energized electorate expected to overwhelm the precincts on November 4, the difference between what happened in 2004 and who next enters the White House will likely be determined by how well the 2008 electoral process can be protected.

We excluded the children aged less than 5 years of age from inpatient SARI surveillance because childhood pneumonia is very common among this age group and samples from these cases, of which a large proportion may have been positive for other respiratory viruses, were expected to overwhelm our laboratory throughput.

I hadn't expected to be overwhelmed.

Smith had expected to be overwhelmed by the pace of the college game.

He expected to be overwhelmed, but he held his own, he said.