Sentence examples for had overloaded from inspiring English sources

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They were told that they could refuse to go if the boat was not seaworthy or if the smugglers had overloaded it.

He said that shortly after the campaign began, a video of a bear cub had overloaded the site, and as a result he put the campaign on a custom plan that could handle increased traffic.

Wing defenseman Brad Stuart, on the weak side, recognized even earlier that when Filppula got the puck, the Pens had overloaded on that side and left him, Stuart, acres of open ice.

The safety agency decided that the tires were not defective and accepted Michelin's argument that consumers had overloaded or underinflated the tires -- the same argument that Firestone has made in fighting lawsuits over its tires now recalled.

This year alone more than 3,000 people have died in the Mediterranean, after boats capsized or, in one case, were sunk by the same traffickers who had overloaded them with desperate passengers (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/migrant-boat-capsizes-egypt-malta-traffickers).

It speaks of a camel whose owner had overloaded it beyond what was a manageable weight; so much so, that it took only but a single piece of additional straw to bring the animal to its knees.

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That's a roster that would have overloaded even Sophocles.

"Black Swan," which Denby accused of having "overloaded and overdetermined" sinister elements and "clunky and redundant" devices, comes in high on Brody's list.

Perhaps – like the sitcom version of a vuvuzela drone – Living has overloaded its schedules with so many episodes that you've quickly stopped noticing it was even there.

"Locusts" is one of the pejoratives that some Hong Kongers use, particularly to describe pregnant mainlanders who have overloaded the city's world-class maternity hospitals.

Such theories aside, the uncertainties in the financial world now seem to have overloaded our collective financial brains, at least judging by the markets.

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