Sentence examples for overwhelming capacity from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush suggested that missile defenses would be a deterrent the same way that an overwhelming capacity for nuclear retaliation once was with the Soviet Union.

The grumbling has escalated despite the huge influx of wealth from the boom, largely because it has become clear that growth is overwhelming capacity.

By the late 19th century, political progressives had identified a great threat to American democracy in the overwhelming capacity of business to dominate the lives of individuals and the functioning of government.

In a careful recalibration of well-known principles set forth years ago by a predecessor, Gen. Colin L. Powell, Admiral Mullen said the military "must not try to use force only in an overwhelming capacity, but in the proper capacity, and in a precise and principled manner".

83 84 Owing to the overwhelming capacity of the kidney to excrete excessive salt consumption, high plasma sodium leads to excessive intravascular volume and high blood pressure.

China is investing heavily in "asymmetric capabilities" designed to blunt America's once-overwhelming capacity to project power in the region.

Stressed-out, depressed and despondent soldiers are seeking help for their mental difficulties at a rate that is overwhelming the capacity of available professionals.

Time magazine tells us that stressed-out, depressed and despondent soldiers are seeking help for their mental difficulties at a rate that is overwhelming the capacity of available professionals.

America's privileged geographical position, removed as it is from direct frontier contact with all the primary sources of contemporary conflict and instability, allied to its overwhelming military capacity, leads inevitably to a quite different approach to dealing with the outside world.

The exposition successfully demonstrated to the world that the United Kingdom, which had been developing steadily since the Industrial Revolution, possessed overwhelming industrial capacity.

But this will take years and Mexico is under pressure from the United States to reduce the flow now, as the surge in migrants has been increasingly overwhelming the capacity of immigration detention centers.