Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
The increase in cruise activity in Mediterranean port cities is overwhelming historic centres and tourist resources with implications in traffic congestion.
At first we thought the enhancement of the "thumping lows" using the bass port would be overwhelming and, truthfully, a bit annoying.
The river port handles the overwhelming majority of the country's international trade and has a cargo handling capacity of 350,000 tons; it has 350 m length of wharfs and of warehousing space.
The Independent witnessed the defiance of the Ukrainian forces in the course of an astonishing day at this military airfield near the port of Sevastopol, against overwhelming military superiority, which included facing Russia's special forces, the Spetsnaz.
On first sight, the capital, of Port-Au-Prince is visually overwhelming, like the sound of one hundred thousand piano keys playing all at once.
He took the ports of La Hogue and Barfleur with overwhelming force and continued inland towards Caen, taking towns along the way.
Italians living abroad also backed the plans, but the no victory was overwhelming, with areas of southern Italy, such as the Sicilian port city of Catania, voting more than 70% against change.
The reforms they need to undertake are potentially overwhelming: higher fuel efficiency, scrubbers on coal plants, control of port emissions and transportation.
In the defence cuts of that winter, HMS Endurance, the navy's "trip wire" vessel in the region, was withdrawn, leaving just 50 squaddies at Port Stanley - who duly surrendered when faced with overwhelming odds.
