Of course, he was forced to use this new stationery for thank-you notes, the labor overwhelming whatever crappy present he had received.
Instead, John Butera, who was appointed by LePage as his senior economic adviser to deal with economic development and job creation matters, had visited the state's Department of Labor "numerous times" before January 2011 and had, according to the document, "had considered the mural to be overwhelming and pro-labor and anti-business".
The need for labor was overwhelming: volunteer soldiers had to spend their time drilling, and thus thousands of African- Americans were forced into service digging trenches to prepare against a possible attack up the peninsula from Fort Monroe.
Last year, however, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said he opposed the project, and he argued that other Democrats secretly were against it, despite the overwhelming support of organized labor.
Unlike other states where prisoners are compensated however meagerly for their labor, the overwhelming majority of prisoners in Texas are not paid for any of their work, much of which involves serious agricultural and industrial activity.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
Many people believe that if there were alternatives, shelters would not kill because they are staffed with benevolent animal lovers, laboring against overwhelming odds and offering a humane death only when necessary.
Labor held an overwhelming majority in the Senate and Cook aimed to break that stranglehold.
Yet the evidence that American women have not stopped moving into the labor force is overwhelming, says Claudia Goldin, an economic historian at Harvard.
