Sentence examples for overwhelmed countries from inspiring English sources

The three overwhelmed countries are host to nearly four million refugees, some in camps but many in cities and towns.

The consequence is a global crisis that threatens to overwhelm countries' economies as people succumb to heart and respiratory diseases, blood vessel conditions, strokes, lung cancers and other long-term illnesses.

One of the strongest El Niño weather events ever recorded is partly to blame: the UN has warned that its severity has "overwhelmed" many countries.

However, protests soon overwhelmed the country's security forces, compelling Pres.

When I came out as gay the sort of hysteria that has since overwhelmed my country was unthinkable.

In the reaction that overwhelmed the country after the French Revolution, their circles were persecuted, but the family tradition remained one of plain speech and free thinking.

In Prague, she told a crowd of about a thousand people in Churchill Square that Churchill had prophesied "the two catastrophes that overwhelmed your country... Nazism and communism.

This is not easy, given that the earthquake has overwhelmed the country's government, transport and other vital channels to deliver goods and services.

France's intelligence services are facing intense scrutiny over whether they could have prevented the Paris attacks, but their defenders argue the scale and complexity of the jihadi threat has simply overwhelmed the country's defences.

"Europe was the way out of the mess we're in, the way out of the corruption that has overwhelmed our country," Andrey Dobrolet, a lawyer, told the Reuters news agency.

Jordan's King Abdullah said in recent months that the massive influx of refugees has overwhelmed his country and brought it to a "boiling point".