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At first sight, the reasons to dismiss this scenario seem overwhelming.

Malawians overwhelmingly chose a Multi Party system of Government.

That is an overwhelming indictment that merits urgent policy action.

Aristide had been elected President in an indisputable landslide.

Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe s economy remains unable to grow.

Germany is a well functioning democracy with an overwhelming majority for an open society.

Voters overwhelmingly returned Thaksin to office in February 2005.

The need for collective, timely, and decisive action is overwhelming.

Each of the four faced what many deemed overwhelming odds.

The Roma, and Europe, have suffered a great defeat.

One was deployment of overwhelming force, which the Mexican military lacks.

According to official US figures, these attacks were overwhelming directed at American forces.

Sixteen months ago, the General Assembly adopted resolution ES 10 15 by an overwhelming margin.

The people of Burundi, who voted overwhelmingly for peace, now await its dividends.

In measured but devastating prose, the Winograd Commission gives failing marks to all three leaders.

Moreover, the social and political backlash eventually will become overwhelming.

Most of the remaining 26 counties which later became the Republic of Ireland were overwhelmingly majority nationalist.

History teaches that diplomacy all too frequently produces results only when backed by overwhelming power.

It is a great victory for business executives, but a huge defeat for the principles that should guide capitalism.

A recent survey showed overwhelming Pakistani opposition to US military incursions into their country.

Nor were the results of the legislative elections in 2000 in doubt Aristide's party had also won in a landslide.

This draft resolution bears the enthusiastic seal of over 106 nations.

And the ruling elite opens a number of parliamentary seats to a popular vote, only to be shocked by a landslide opposition win.

Having imbibed the most important of her father s values, she held a free election, which she overwhelmingly lost.

However, Polish public opinion, like public opinion in Western Europe, was overwhelmingly opposed to the Iraq invasion.

These rules include appropriate temporary safety valves for recession, and some have super majority voting requirements.

Before the war, America could project overwhelming force. Not anymore.

The response was an overwhelming majority of 368,392 votes for the dissolution and only 184 against, an unequivocal result.

For many consecutive years, the General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on prevention of an arms race in outer space.

As it stands, Assad s regime possesses an overwhelming military advantage, with an air force, tanks, missiles, and chemical and biological weapons.

Iranian reformers had tried (to no avail) since the landslide 1997 election of President Mohammed Khatami, to change the system from within.

There appears to be an overwhelming likelihood that the 1974 stalemate will be repeated in the upcoming general election on May 6.

The March 15 agreement was not politically viable, and was overwhelmingly rejected by the Cypriot parliament.

WASHINGTON, D.C. President Vladimir Putin turned Russia parliamentary election into a referendum on himself and won by a landslide.

The Supreme Military Council is overwhelmingly Islamist, with rebel controlled areas of Syria already practicing sharia (Islamic law).

Two years ago, the European Parliament in Strasbourg overwhelmingly passed a declaration urging a green hydrogen economy.

This part of Ukraine overwhelmingly supported Viktor Yanukovych in elections, and local police participated in his bid to hold power.

After more than 50 years of almost uninterrupted power, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been buried in a general election.

In 2000, Island voters overwhelmingly supported a proposal to reduce the size of the Legislature from 15 members to 9 members.

The answer lies in the support that Indonesian pro democracy activists can generate domestically and internationally. To lose Indonesia a potential beacon of hope to all pro democracy activists in the world Muslim community would be a terrible defeat.

He needed a book that went into some detail of physics and chemistry, but which medical students would not find overwhelmingly mathematical.

In addition, Guamanians also voted overwhelmingly against the proposal to legalize casino gambling in large Guam hotels.

All polls suggest that, given the choice in a free, fair, and well organized referendum, southerners will vote overwhelmingly for independence.

Yes, a full scale military invasion would meet with a devastating defeat by superior South Korean and US military forces, whose current naval exercises in the Yellow Sea are designed to remind North Korea of this disparity.