Word: overwhelmer
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...Iraqi people have been liberated, but lawlessness and radical Shiite clerics threaten to overwhelm progress toward the development of a stable government...
...girls stand up. "An engineer?" "A doctor?" Each time, most of the girls happily stand up. "And who wants to be President of Afghanistan?" This time, only Noqreh stands. President? she thinks. Why not? For a start, she'll run for president of her class. But family problems soon overwhelm her ambitions. There's no water, and no milk for her sister's newborn child. And no place to stay. People find shelter in the hull of an abandoned plane or in the ruins of a palace. After occupation by the Soviets, the Taliban and the U.S., Afghanistan is rich...
...trust them." He learned about the guard when he was challenged for a password while returning to his own tent, late in the evening. One officer jokingly asked Col. Hodges how he got past the guard without a password and received the reply, "I tried to overwhelm him with the sheer force of my personality. When that failed, he eventually saw the logic of letting me into my tent so he could guard me properly...
...French and Italian new waves, and Chile's Ra?l Ruiz (now self-exiled in Paris) has long had a substantial European following. But starting in the '70s, Latin cinema's funding, talent and audience got sucked away by telenovelas - the cheesy, prime-time TV soap operas that still overwhelm Latin entertainment. In the '70s, Brazilian films held an impressive 35% of the domestic market; by 1991, when fewer than half a dozen Brazilian features were made, the share had dropped to 0.5%. The return to form began in the '90s. As statism gave way to capitalism, spanking new multiplexes...
...hurdle to consider. Let's suppose that researchers discover some sort of safe and effective cure for the common cold. Chances are you would have to get a doctor's prescription for it. When you consider that Americans suffer about 1 billion colds a year, the resulting demand could overwhelm the health-care system--which is why most cold experts believe that any cure will have to be safe enough to be sold over the counter...