The letter received an overwhelming response, gaining over 1,000 retweets and favourites in a few days thanks to a retweet from the Roald Dahl Literary Estate's Twitter account.
Assisted suicide typically gains overwhelming public support; legislators, pro-family lobbies, churches and doctors' groups tend to be more squeamish.
Soaring prices for food and gasoline are overwhelming modest wage gains for most workers, leaving households with even less money to spend.
Together, Allawi and Maliki gained overwhelming support because they spoke of Iraqi unity, reconciliation, and reconstruction.
One email suggests a one-off compensation payment that, it promises, would "gain overwhelming support" from the membership.
Despite Eisenhower's overwhelming victory, Republicans gained control of the House by just eight votes and managed only a tie in the Senate.
Mr. Sturridge began with one conviction: there was one actor ideally suited to play Shackleton, and if he could be interested at the outset the project would gain overwhelming momentum.
Committee chairmen have almost dictatorial powers to set the agenda, and Mr Helms takes a strong, isolationist stance on foreign policy (although, to his credit, he and the ranking Democrat, Joe Biden, this week gained overwhelming Senate support for a bill to repay, albeit with many strings attached, almost $1 billion of America's UN arrears).
Last month, Mr. Williams, 51, led a fuel price protest at a nearby refinery that rapidly swept across Britain, emptying 90percentt of the country's gas stations, gaining overwhelming support from the very motorists it was inconveniencing and turning the British public against a government that had been enjoying broad approval.
