Sentence examples for until overwhelmed from inspiring English sources

As long as hospitals see patients as their 'property' and do not transfer them until overwhelmed, optimal care in the event of a disaster cannot be possible.

Her arms dangled awkwardly, until, overwhelmed by the ovation from the congress of her Christian Democratic party, Angela Merkel managed a wave so rigid it suggested an East German leader from the Soviet days.

In a briefing at the White House Monday, FEMA Director Craig Fugate said that the lesson of Katrina is for the federal government to "get things going earlier" and not wait until an overwhelmed state "says we're going to need help".

By contrast, Tomic looked weary and overwhelmed until the middle of the third set, when he seemed to relax and play with calm deliberation.

The banks suffered denial of service attacks, in which hackers barrage a Web site with traffic until it is overwhelmed and shuts down.

In the past, such assaults typically occurred through a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers flood their target with Web traffic from networks of infected computers until it is overwhelmed and shuts down.

McNamara's specialty was the industrialised warfare in which the United States had been the leader ever since the country's civil war, a kind of war in which the battlefield is seen as the terminal point of a mass production process that pours in firepower until the opponent is overwhelmed.

The human experience of QOL may demonstrate both homeostatic and hysteretic properties: coping and habituation may help to maintain stability in QOL unless and until an individual becomes overwhelmed, requiring the establishment of a new adaptive state with its own frame of reference [ 26].

The need out there is acute and ubiquitous, so it's little wonder that we are often so overwhelmed that we do nothing until a deadline arrives.

If the gene for human growth hormone is not regulated, muscles might grow until they outstripped the blood supply or overwhelmed tendons and ligaments.

It wasn't until I realized - through being very overwhelmed and confused - that I needed to start at the beginning and just paint what I know.