• And when the fear dynamic is lost, the overwhelming force analysis changes pretty dramatically.

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  • But the soldiers have the arguments of economic success as well as of overwhelming force on their side.

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  • And concede that sometimes it takes both overwhelming force -- and a touch of diplomacy -- to tear down a wall.

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  • "Overwhelming force", when it comes to providing liquidity support for markets, has to mean support that is potentially unlimited - open-ended.

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  • Sustained by its high growth rates, Asia has time yet before the cost of health and aged care becomes an overwhelming force and threatens a Eurozone-style crisis.

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  • Where the Powell doctrine states, you know, you have a clear mission, you use overwhelming force to accomplish the mission, and then you have a clear exit strategy.

    NPR: Patrick Murphy: From Iraq War to Congress

  • In the late Cold War period, and during the nineteen-nineties, the Army embraced what became known as the Powell Doctrine, which emphasized the decisive use of overwhelming force in conventional wars, as well as the enunciation of clear exit strategies for U.S. troops.

    NEWYORKER: The General��s Dilemma

  • They might not be able to redesign the eurozone overnight or start selling common eurobonds next week, but imagine, against the odds, that eurozone ministers decided they were going to confront the default and liquidity worries hanging over the eurozone with "overwhelming force", as Mr Geithner recommends.

    BBC: Central banks and the 'spirit of 2008'

  • But the decision to "pause" the bill and then to re-write it to appease its critics, owed a fair bit to in house critics in both coalition parties in the Commons, to a stream of detailed comment and criticism from Stephen Dorrell's Health Select Committee, and still more to the promise of ambush with overwhelming force in the House of Lords.

    BBC: NHS reform rethink - a triumph for Parliament?

  • Mohita has the unbridled optimism of a young Indian generation with an overwhelming work force.

    CNN: India's youth reflect nation's contrasts

  • John Kotter: I think the evidence is overwhelming that the most fundamental force in driving events in the world today all has to do with the rate of change out there.

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  • Andrew Jackson's stunning, overwhelming defeat of the vastly superior British force that had humbled Napoleon firmly secured America's independence.

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  • "We now have leapt up a step to become a space-power nation, " he said, adding that South Korea would use this "overwhelming moment as a strong, dynamic force" to help drive an independent space programme.

    BBC: South Korea launches space rocket carrying satellite

  • For months, a unit led by Captain Dan Kearney holds an outpost high in the Korengal Valley that gives the soldiers a clear view of the land below, but the impression of force exerted without purpose is overwhelming.

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  • That seems to be an overwhelming task for the Haitian National Police, a force of about 9, 000.

    CNN: Survivors still being pulled from Haiti rubble

  • Liberal Democrats on the council are urging it to use its powers to force the owners to improve the site, citing its own survey which showed overwhelming support for a compulsory purchase order (CPO).

    BBC: Tunbridge Wells residents urged to come up with plans

  • Meanwhile, last week, the Senate approved a plan, by an overwhelming bi-partisan majority, that would give government the power to break up failing financial firms, to force them to become smaller.

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