Sentence examples for have been overpowered from inspiring English sources

Human rights have been overpowered by economic interests; the cause is as hopeless as that of the big United States trade deficit with China.

Imam, who was 1.57m tall (5ft 2iss), is believed to have been overpowered on a sofa at David Cooper's home in Leicester on Christmas Eve.

Today, in the countryside on the banks of the Po, the rebels, though they outnumber the peacekeepers, seemed to have been overpowered.

His forceful condemnations of extreme forms of Islam have made him an object of hatred among Islamists and an icon among progressives, whose voices have been overpowered by the thunder of the radicals.

At the public event in Albuquerque last week, King suggested that if the man who killed 49 people in the Orlando terror attack "had gone in there with a knife, he would have been overpowered before he'd stabbed more than four people".

The potential positive effect of music may have been overpowered by the multimodal approach in our study.

The scale and ambition of his new work was no surprise; Serra's sculptures have been overpowering viewers since the late nineteen-sixties, when he showed his early propped-lead pieces at the Guggenheim and Whitney Museums.

The addict has been overpowered by her addiction.

Bosh has been overpowered and outshone by Roy Hibbert, the Pacers' towering and quickly blossoming young center.

The street clothes came from a maintenance worker who had been overpowered by prisoners.

Hingis has been overpowered by the hard-hitting Venus and Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport and Mary Pierce at the Grand Slam events.