Sentence examples for threatening to swamp from inspiring English sources

Finally, climate change is threatening to swamp low-lying breeding islands and possibly impact prey abundance.

But now the global credit squeeze is threatening to swamp those overleveraged banks, and the country with it.

For example, The Sun carried this in November: "A tidal wave of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants is threatening to swamp Britain".

But the old accusations are threatening to swamp the film's publicity tour and are dredging up questions about the two men's accountability.

Demographic Trends: The first major development (or non-development) revealed by this year's campaign is that the pro-Democratic demographic tidal wave threatening to swamp the Republican Party has not crested.

"The current chaos in Syria is hard for European citizens to understand," he said, "but what is happening concerns us all," threatening to swamp the stirrings of Arab democracy with resurgent dictatorships, both secular and religious.

The tide of self-published books threatens to swamp their products.

The rolling waves caused by the backwash threatened to swamp it.

But as the baby-boom generation retires, the programs threaten to swamp the federal budget.

The huge settlements had threatened to swamp the Anglican Church of Canada.

An avalanche that threatens to swamp him, for real this time.