As once-proud Soviet collective farms failed and foreign imports overwhelmed Russia's domestic production, Gazprom stepped in with financing and became the biggest single owner of agricultural land in Russia.
Were we in Paris then, our perceptions more than likely would have been in tune with hers: those of an American struggling to understand a foreign place, overwhelmed by the bohemian expatriates surrounding us, on the margins of the aesthetic chatter in the cafés, terribly lonely as our spouse disappears to write.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
He realized that as long as the Romans commanded the resources of an undivided Italian confederacy, no foreign attack could overwhelm them beyond recovery.
Multilateral liberalisation is a sort of jujitsu that uses exporters' determination to get into foreign markets to overwhelm domestic lobbies that would sooner keep home markets closed.
Local media have reported that people trying to resolve their status have hit a string of bureaucratic obstacles as government offices and foreign consulates are overwhelmed.
So far, forays by Western investors have met with very limited success, as Russia's tangled business environment has overwhelmed foreign auto companies.
John Prendergast, a longtime Darfur activist, said key administration officials, including Ms. Power, who is a close friend, remained concerned about Darfur, though "right now the foreign policy is overwhelmed by a tidal wave of crises".
Chinese cyber-attacks might take the same form as the denial of service attacks that rattled Estonia, using botnets to overwhelm foreign servers and depending on the Golden Shield to block attempts at retaliation.
Overwhelming dependency on foreign aid is still a challenge for Afghan people who would like to make their country stand on its own feet and live life peacefully.
