Sentence examples for overwhelmingly on a from inspiring English sources

The price of the constituency system in Westminster is that parties concentrate overwhelmingly on a small number of seats deemed decisive.

In restaurants the world over, sommeliers, those exacting, extracting professionals, rely overwhelmingly on a simple, handy device known as the waiter's friend or, sometimes, as the wine key.

In September, he put it to a referendum, which, according to official figures at least, was approved overwhelmingly, on a huge turnout.

Those who really value education are also enraged by the official insistence that they must choose a school based overwhelmingly on a narrow interpretation of "results".

Purchases can have a fiscal effect; by lowering expected government borrowing costs QE may reduce expectations of future taxation, encouraging more work and investment in the present.Empirical assessments focus overwhelmingly on a third channel: portfolio rebalancing.

China's economic boom over the last three decades has depended overwhelmingly on a build-at-all-costs investment strategy in which pollution concerns, the preservation of neighborhoods and other such questions have been swept aside.

TEHRAN, Aug. 23 -- Iranian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Sunday for a bill creating a $20 million fund intended in part to expose human rights violations by the United States, the ILNA news agency reported.

Students, faculty members and workers of the national university, worn out by a nine-month strike, voted overwhelmingly on Thursday for a plan by its president to return to class, final results showed today.

Meanwhile, rapidly rising petrol and electricity prices are hardly boosting consumers' spirits.Off the jobBut the biggest potential cause for gloom is the labour market: a consumer's ability to spend depends overwhelmingly on his having a job.

This leads him into conversations about taxation, redistribution and a look-backery to the kind of Labour thought that focuses overwhelmingly on equality as a social good, but less so on innovations or reforms to achieve it.

Financial institutions outside the United States also say that the law's costs will be imposed overwhelmingly on them, giving a competitive advantage to United States rivals.