My colleague cites a 2002 paper by three MIT political scientists that finds that campaign contributions have little influence on candidates' political actions, which are overwhelmingly determined by party and by the convictions of voters in their districts.
The only major tournament without a roof is as much a television event as a sporting event yet, perversely, year after year, the schedules, which are overwhelmingly determined by the demands of ESPN and CBS, run to the rhythm of the storms that lash this part of the east coast every August and September.
Contexts of care at the end of life are overwhelmingly determined by the capacity and nature of formal and informal networks and relations to support care.
Wu, like others of the group, sought stylistic inspiration in the past (especially from Five Dynasties masters such as Juran), but his paintings are not overwhelmingly determined by that desire.
(It cannot be repeated often enough how, come election time, almost all the things that British citizens really care about - tax and spend, the NHS, education, pensions, crime and antisocial behaviour, immigration and foreign policy - are still overwhelmingly determined at national level).
Well, our sense of smell is overwhelmingly important, and accounts for as much as 90% in determining what we taste.
Myanmar is overwhelmingly Buddhist.
The emerging picture is overwhelmingly complex.
The Philippines is overwhelmingly Catholic.
The population is overwhelmingly Muslim.
