Sentence examples for overwhelming portion of from inspiring English sources

Canada has no equivalent free market for the overwhelming portion of its timber.

In the United States, private investors own the overwhelming portion of woodlands.

If iTunes becomes a dominant radio force, it could control an overwhelming portion of the music business.

It's not an overwhelming portion of this $27 billion market, though — only about $3 billion, without public schools.

Despite the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, the military has retained an overwhelming portion of its historic authority.

Flavorful shrimp come in a fine, mildly spicy sauce of ground peanuts and plantains, while an almost overwhelming portion of roast suckling pig includes ribs, shoulder leg and plenty of crisp skin.

"The overwhelming portions of our assistance to Plan Colombia and to President Uribe's program is in the form of counternarcotics aid".

The transaminase ω-TA is highly selective for the sterically less demanding methyl ketone while the monoamine oxidase MAO-N shows an overwhelming preference for the more bulky portion of the corresponding pyrrolidine.

The overwhelming predominance of strict anaerobes on the portion of the tree illustrated in Figure 3 supports the view that all four nitrogenase types evolved in an anaerobic atmosphere in the ancestor(s) of these organisms.

Donald Fehr, the union head, said the documents represented "only a small portion" of the necessary information, "with the vast and overwhelming majority yet to come".

We would add that a significant portion of "psychic stress" is often economic stress — which can be overwhelming for returning veterans.