Sentence examples for overwhelmed to learn from inspiring English sources

Gay activists were not optimistic in light of the record of voter turnout against them in the previous year, but they were overwhelmed to learn that on election day more than a million voters turned out to strike down the proposition.

When a woman from my office agreed to come to the birth, to help translate, I blew off my Japanese lessons for the rest of the pregnancy, feeling too overwhelmed by hormones to learn kanji.

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by everything you need to learn, but if you take good notes and manage your time well, it will feel much more manageable.

P1: "Because her needs are so complicated and they're in so many different areas… there is physio, speech and language, OT, neurology…so many different people for us to learn, to keep up with and to learn the language, we didn't know what to ask…we're just completely … overwhelmed".

J. Edgar Hoover got the money and the impunity to build his F.B.I.; the government established a national archive of criminals' fingerprints; overwhelmed prosecutors learned to use plea bargaining to avoid trials; the Supreme Court ruled that government agents didn't need a warrant to conduct wiretaps.

If you become overwhelmed, learn how to let certain tasks go.

"We are quite overwhelmed to be honest.

"Immigration authorities have been too overwhelmed to track them".

Star Mark Wright said: "We're absolutely overwhelmed to be here tonight, even to be nominated.

We were quite overwhelmed to win the biggest prize in architecture.

"I'm overwhelmed to win," she said.