Sentence examples for the overwhelming capacity from inspiring English sources

By the late 19th century, political progressives had identified a great threat to American democracy in the overwhelming capacity of business to dominate the lives of individuals and the functioning of government.

83 84 Owing to the overwhelming capacity of the kidney to excrete excessive salt consumption, high plasma sodium leads to excessive intravascular volume and high blood pressure.

Mr. Bush suggested that missile defenses would be a deterrent the same way that an overwhelming capacity for nuclear retaliation once was with the Soviet Union.

In a careful recalibration of well-known principles set forth years ago by a predecessor, Gen. Colin L. Powell, Admiral Mullen said the military "must not try to use force only in an overwhelming capacity, but in the proper capacity, and in a precise and principled manner".

The grumbling has escalated despite the huge influx of wealth from the boom, largely because it has become clear that growth is overwhelming capacity.

China is investing heavily in "asymmetric capabilities" designed to blunt America's once-overwhelming capacity to project power in the region.

Because of its expanded capacity, the overwhelming majority of business calculations requiring multiple machine operations are performed and checked in a single operation.

This is most likely due to the overwhelming emphasis on increasing organisations' capacity to engage with existing research findings as opposed to producing new research to inform policy and that, in general, policy agencies are not in the business of doing research [ 19, 50].

But this will take years and Mexico is under pressure from the United States to reduce the flow now, as the surge in migrants has been increasingly overwhelming the capacity of immigration detention centers.

The overwhelming majority of nuclear reactor generating capacity is concentrated in North America, Europe, and Asia.

But she had not realized that the operation did not have the capacity to handle the overwhelming volume of orders.