The cohort was stratified for social class such that all births to the wives of agricultural and non-manual workers in that week were included, along with one in four births to the wives of manual workers, the overwhelming occupational group in post-war Britain.
Instead, about two million Afghans have flooded back into the country, crowding refugee centers and overwhelming aid groups.
I got an e-mail from LinkedIn just now letting me know that this feature is now finally being added, "in response to overwhelming demand from group managers" (no kidding) and that group managers can now blast out e-mails with announcements and create a discussion topic that members can comment on automatically in the process.
The overwhelming challenge, the group agreed, was to run well in high heat and humidity.
In a time of famine, it's a bit overwhelming for aid groups to deal with all these new entities.
Large black crows swooping overhead, roaming pigs, overwhelming odours and groups of waste pickers collecting plastic bottles in large white sacks.
Although the grants were capped at a modest $500,000, the response to the program was overwhelming — 339 nonprofit groups and institutions of higher education from across the country formed coalitions, raised matching funds and filed applications.
After a disputed vote-counting method in last May's legislative and local elections gave Mr. Aristide's Lavalas party an overwhelming victory, opposition groups and outside countries alike shunned last week's elections, sending neither money, observers nor candidates.
It's no surprise, perhaps, that the overwhelming reason both groups disapprove of cats roaming kitchen counters has to do with hygiene issues.
Both groups overwhelming voted in favour of the bonus system, despite less than 45% of students failing to achieve it.
