Word: overwhelm
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...that he needed to engage his opponent in a brawl, to bull Mayweather, who tends to sidestep his opponents with ghost-like body movements. De La Hoya, an angular man who stands two inches taller than Mayweather, wanted to get in close and use his power and size to overwhelm his opponent whose gymnast-like body is difficult...
...this seminal artist as he moved from pure abstraction to representation. The exhibit is notable for featuring Léger’s early, very rare, and more purely Cubist work produced between 1912 and 1914. Filling just two rooms, the tightly focused collection doesn’t overwhelm the viewer or distract from the works themselves. One room holds the early and raw “Contrasts of Forms” series—most recently displayed at the University of Virginia—while the other contains a selection of Léger’s later...
...rail, calling the Western-backed Siniora a traitor for allegedly undermining Hizballah during its war with Israel four months earlier. Only a week before, masked gunmen had assassinated one of Siniora's Cabinet colleagues, Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel. For hours, nobody knew if the mob would overwhelm the guards, enter the building, drag Siniora and his ministers from office - and perhaps ignite a new civil...
...asylum in the first E.U. country in which they arrive.) As a consequence, Iraqis in Sweden range from Shi'ites like Alaa, who are fleeing Sunni militia, to Sunnis who for decades belonged to the Baath Party and supported Saddam's regime. Until the volume of Iraqis began to overwhelm Sweden's bureaucracy, most Iraqi refugees received Swedish residence rights within a year, allowing them to bring other family members into the country. But Swedish immigration officials now say that the huge numbers of Iraqis - and their use of forged documents - have slowed the processing of residence applications. Sweden...
...secondary fields by almost a month.Assistant Dean of the College Stephanie H. Kenen, who is coordinating the approval process, said administrators encouraged the Department of Economics to implement a secondary field. At a Faculty meeting last spring, some economists had cautioned that a possible influx of students could overwhelm a department already home to the largest number of concentrators.“Once they were going to do it, we wanted to make sure we responded quickly,” Kenen said. The six-half-course secondary field in economics provides students with the opportunity to learn the basics...