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Epidemics — or biological, chemical or radiological disasters — could put overwhelming demands on the need for medicines, vaccines, medical devices (such as ventilators), and hospital facilities.

If Mr. Clinton had delivered his speech on Sunday, it would have put overwhelming pressure on the House Democratic leader, Richard A. Gephardt, to deliver a rebuttal.

The 2010 elections put overwhelming Republican majorities in both houses of the Legislature just as the time came to draw new political maps for state legislators, the Congressional delegation and members of the State Board of Education.

"When one body of water is empty, it puts overwhelming pressure on the barrier, so we built a thick acrylic glass divider to provide balance".

The meeting is understood to have ended with broad agreement that there is little scope for discussing the basics of theology with Muslims: as a religion that puts overwhelming stress on revelation, its tenets are fixed and not open to re-interpretation.

Even with the reduced schedule, the stresses of life in a two-career household put an overwhelming strain on her marriage.

And it happened in the worst year possible, right before the Legislature reworked the district maps — maps that put that overwhelming advantage in place for the next decade.

But interest also appeared to be up this year in less dazzling "nonlethal armaments" of the kind put to overwhelming use recently in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and elsewhere.

"I was this woman who made this great 'choice,' " Sheilah O'Donnel, who left a position at Oracle after the stresses of life in a two-career household put an overwhelming strain on her marriage, told Ms. Warner.

Founded in 1635, it was modeled on the grammar schools of England, which is to say that it put an overwhelming emphasis on the ancient languages and "humane learning and good literature".

While plenty of city schools, from elementary to secondary, teach students about environmental issues like endangered species or global warming, places like the Green School put an overwhelming emphasis on civic involvement.