Word: overwhelming
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...blanket over him, then wrestle him to floor and keep him there. We'll land the plane at the nearest airport, and the authorities will take it from there. Remember, there will be one of him and maybe a few confederates, but there are 200 of you. You can overwhelm them...
...Boer fighters who hated the overweening presence of Queen Victoria's realm. They were scruffy, hairy faced, profoundly religious in their battle against Anglo-Saxon materialism and extremely hard to find and destroy. It took no less than 300,000 men from Britain and the other dominions to overwhelm the Afrikaaner resistance in a three-year campaign. "We have had no end of a lesson," Kipling warned. British military forces were not equipped for guerrilla warfare. Intelligence was lacking. Stock markets swooned. Foreign states expressed regret but privately enjoyed the British discomfiture. The empire was compelled to rethink its strategy...
...about 6.89%, vs. a low of 6.68% in 1998--a level that didn't last long and was the lowest average mortgage rate since the 1960s. If rates sink much lower, virtually everyone with a mortgage will be an instant candidate for refinancing. The volume of new business would overwhelm bankers, who'd no longer have a reason to drop rates aggressively. Already there's evidence that bankers are getting their fill. Since June, the decline in mortgage rates has not kept pace with the decline in the 10-year Treasury-bond yield, their benchmark...
...angry. Why, because the vivacious teeming city in which I grew up is changed forever? Because my brother couldn’t sleep Tuesday night because of the sound of fighter jets overhead? It is so tempting to be angry. But to let our anger overwhelm us, to let it manifest itself in hate mail and threatening phone calls to innocent people and organizations—that is to let these cowards...
...fortress hubs" dominated by the majors: Atlanta (Delta), Chicago (United and American), Dallas (American) and Detroit (Northwest). And it does not intend to. Neeleman knows that if he invades the hubs, the big carriers will probably try to price-cut him to death or add flights to overwhelm the still small airline...