Sentence examples for overwhelming disasters from inspiring English sources

–HEINRICH HEINE What have appeared to be the most striking successes have often, if they are not rightly used, brought the most overwhelming disasters in their train, and conversely the most terrible calamities have, if bravely endured, actually turned out to benefit the sufferers.

But other leaders, some of whom had faced their own calamities, did offer a vision for tackling an overwhelming disaster.

QUESTION FROM JAMES FOWLSTON: Compare and contrast Haiti and Chile's response to overwhelming disaster: one has recovered greatly, the other is nothing more than a nepotic cleptocracy — culture means something.

We allow an emergency situation to deteriorate into an overwhelming disaster requiring a much larger scale of response.

Tom is tirelessly positive even when unforeseen disasters seem overwhelming.

Gorbachev and Yeltsin are seen by an overwhelming majority as historical disasters who provoked decline, collapse, chaos, and humiliation before the triumphal West.

Children unfortunately continue to bear the biggest burden of one of the most protracted man-made disasters.... Overwhelming opposition to female genital mutilation/cutting, yet millions of girls still at risk: UNICEF Khartoum – January 21 , 2016 The last weeks have once again seen an escalation in violence in the Blue Nile, Darfur region and Nuba Mountains.

Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.

The biggest change is the waning of the initial impact: the shocked drama and overwhelming trauma of the disaster in all its immediacy.

Despite clear and overwhelming evidence of the disaster, Abizaid and Casey pushed on, assuring the public that their strategy was working.

Mr. Noda was forced to consider alternative energy sources after a series of public hearings held by the government after the Fukushima disaster showed overwhelming support for phasing out nuclear power.