Oil companies and wood exporters may not have the overwhelming incentive to cooperate that moved the diamond industry.
At a stroke, they lost their ability to provide impartial advice: the overwhelming incentive was to close the deal almost regardless.
Mitchell said McNamee "had an overwhelming incentive to tell the truth" because of the threat of federal prosecution if he lied.
As long as there was room for the bubble to grow, Wall Street's overwhelming incentive was to keep it going.
"The overwhelming incentive at this meeting is to dull the hawkish effects of tapering with more dovish communication," wrote Eric Green, head of rates, foreign exchange and commodities research at TD Securities.
Of course, the document meant nothing, immediately, for the slaves in Confederate-controlled territories — but it gave them an overwhelming incentive to do whatever they could to expedite Union victory.
It may have a depressive effect on births to illegal immigrants already in the United States, but that effect, too, will be slight compared to the overwhelming incentive for having babies, which is pretty much hard-wired into our systems, for good or ill.
As analog transistors shrink, moreover, small imperfections are magnified by the square of the reduction, creating an overwhelming incentive for analog designers to use larger transistors, entirely incompatible with the scaling magic of Moore's law.
…. "The picture isn't pretty: Students with false expectations, deans with an overwhelming incentive to tell students what they want to hear, and few people with any reason to offer an effective counternarrative.
But she said despite measures to reduce "the pull factors that draw people to Britain," so long as there is an enormous disparity between earnings in EU member states there will be an "overwhelming incentive" for people to move from poorer to richer countries.
