Sentence examples for subject to overwhelming from inspiring English sources

He had three major nervous breakdowns, was subject to overwhelming and agonising infatuations and had had shattering experiences of death, most notably his first lover, Philip Streatfeild, killed in the first world war, his brother Eric, of cancer, and, shortly after the premiere of Blithe Spirit, another lover, Prince George of Kent.

It was a scene wholly unimaginable just a few years ago when this country was under strict military rule and its press subject to overwhelming controls: The ballroom of one of this city's fanciest hotels, filled with journalists from around the world, assembled for an international conference headlined "On the Path to a Free Media".

Previous studies illustrated that homozygous RAGE-/ mice subjected to overwhelming bacterial sepsis displayed normal clearance of pathogenic bacteria and significantly increased survival.

Even the grand spectacle of the Olympics opening ceremony is subject to the overwhelming power of modern communications.

I called the teacher to say that it had now gone too far -- she was unable to freely and comfortably attend school and should not be subject to his overwhelming 8-year-old desire and its consequences.

Such a mechanism would be subject to the overwhelming dominance of penultimate syllable stress in Italian, and would be biased to apply it to the phoneme sequence.

The bacterium is then subjected to an overwhelming array of killing mechanisms and is dead a few minutes later.

In PTSD, victims are subjected to such overwhelming and horrible emotional trauma that they are unable to regain stability with typical psychological coping mechanisms.

Preparations were made to bring up units stationed for the defense of Brittany, southwest of Normandy, but these would not arrive quickly and would be subject to losses inflicted in transit by overwhelming Allied air superiority.

This development made it impossible for Scheer to retreat, for doing so would have sacrificed the slower pre-dreadnought battleships of the II Battle Squadron, while using his dreadnoughts and battlecruisers to cover their retreat would have subjected his strongest ships to overwhelming British fire.

The overwhelming majority of the patients were subject to private and/or professional stressors with health-related anxieties.