Sentence examples for measures overwhelmed from inspiring English sources

AIRLINE LOSSES TO MOUNT -- Their cost-cutting measures overwhelmed by the surging price of oil, domestic airlines will probably record losses totaling $7.4 billion this year, the International Air Transport Association said in a revised forecast yesterday.

Peace and joy, in equal measure, overwhelmed me.

But the votes for the measure were overwhelming.

However, the task of retrieving tropospheric ozone from space has to face with one fundamental difficulty: the contribution of the tropospheric ozone to the measured radiances is overwhelmed by a much stronger stratospheric signal, which has to be reliably filtered.

The report said the government relied on one study to claim several processes had no fugitive emissions, despite that report explicitly acknowledging large leaks that it wasn't able to properly measure, because the measuring equipment was being overwhelmed by gas leaking from other sources – including sources assumed to have no emissions when Australia reports to the UNFCCC.

But these would be costly measures and border inspectors are already overwhelmed by the increasing amounts of traded plant material (van der Graaf and Khoury 2010).

It has sustained me and overwhelmed me in equal measure.

The seismic energy overwhelmed all the precautions and measures Japan had put in place: all its experience, knowledge and technology was no match for this earthquake and tsunami.

He said that anti-extremism measures, including the anti-radicalisation scheme "Prevent", had "overwhelmed the work on cohesion" since 2007.

But a decade on, all the measures to reduce the risk of disasters are being overwhelmed by the rising tide of calamities the world faces.

He says "What measures existed to help immigrants become British had been overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the immigration flows".