In New York, though, the practice has been used — overwhelmingly against black and Hispanic men — on the vaguest of pretexts, often with little consideration for dignity.
Details were vague, the public reaction, both at home and abroad, overwhelmingly cynical.The devaluation wrecks one of the few economic achievements of the past seven years, a stable rouble, and jeopardises another, the taming of inflation.
When presented with vague proposals about getting tough on crime, British voters invariably approve overwhelmingly.
Though Trump provides some (vague) sops to working Americans, the thrust of his plans would overwhelmingly do what Republican economic proposals have been doing for decades - favor the rich and well-to-do at the expense of everyone else.
She talks in vague terms of having "down days", and only acknowledges a paralysis of overwhelmingly bleak despair when I probe gently for details.
Palestinian refugees will, overwhelmingly, return to the new state of Palestine, not their old homes in Israel.And rather than promising vague partnerships, the EU would be better off making a clear and simple offer: if Israel and Palestine reach a full and final peace agreement, they should be eligible for membership of both the EU and NATO.
The cellphone industry lobby, CTIA -- the Wireless Assn., recently said in a statement that "peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a public health risk". Meanwhile, watchdog groups keep it vague.
Back at the beginning, the men who actually died in the Civil War, overwhelmingly young and poor, victimized by the lethal combination of new weapons and old tactics, were only vaguely aware of much of this in the haze of patriotism, whichever side they were on.
