• How do we know if the road type is swamping any effect from traffic density?

    BBC: Crashes

  • Otherwise, on blustery days you risk swamping your own grid, and on calm days going short.

    ECONOMIST: Let them burn snake oil

  • Yet due to the subsidised US fibre swamping the world market they cannot get a good price.

    BBC: Here in Texas they call it white gold.

  • WorldShare landed 30, 000 members in 45 days, swamping its staff and halting new sign-ups for almost a month.

    FORBES: Free For All

  • He said children of asylum seekers would be taught in accommodation centres to prevent them "swamping" local schools.

    BBC: Blunkett plays down 'swamping' remark

  • The 78 floodgates installed in the lagoon will eventually close off the three inlets during high tides, blocking them from swamping the city.

    BBC: Living in: Venice

  • Away from Fukushima, the tsunami caused widespread devastation, swamping entire villages, killing thousands of people and leaving many more homeless.

    BBC: Japan MP Yasuhiro Sonoda drinks Fukushima water

  • China is already on a roaring path towards single-handedly swamping any hopes of climate stability, and success is far from assured.

    FORBES: Connect

  • WorldShare landed 30, 000 members in 45 days, swamping its staff and forcing a halt to new sign-ups for almost a month.

    FORBES: Free For All

  • The Sun will then become a red giant, swamping and obliterating Mercury.

    BBC: Date set for desert Earth

  • The mud continues to flow today, and has displaced more than 16, 000 people, swamping entire villages, factories and towns in toxic sludge.

    ECONOMIST: Face value

  • Melissa sends e-mail messages to the first 50 addresses of a user's Microsoft Outlook address book, potentially "swamping" a company's server, Hernan said.

    CNN: 'Melissa' mutates, becomes resistant to patch

  • Dr Buckman said swine flu for most was a nasty but relatively mild illness, however he said people were panicking and swamping doctors with calls.

    BBC: Woman gave birth before flu death

  • Digital overload is swamping the current recommendation engines, making the sharp knife of human editorial a better filter than the blunt instrument of algorithmic recommendation.

    FORBES: Humans Vs. Robots: Who's On Top?

  • What else do we have to control the costs swamping us?

    FORBES: Don't Bank On Health Savings Accounts

  • Some are capable of swamping all receivers over a wide area.

    BBC: UK 'over-reliant' on GPS signals, engineers warn

  • Falintil's biggest problem today is the sheer numbers of refugees who have flocked for protection to their camps, swamping their capacity to feed them, let alone conduct military operations.

    CNN: Back in the Thick of It

  • Those effects, in turn, could allow many desperate companies to return to a semblance of solvency, and so halt the inexorable rise of bad debts swamping the region's banks.

    ECONOMIST: Too soon to celebrate | The

  • The threat of these putative hordes swamping the territory straining social services, stealing jobs and daily reminding Hong Kong wives of their husbands' infidelities has brought to a head a growing constitutional crisis.

    ECONOMIST: No vacancies in Hong Kong

  • Swamping Jimmy with work had been a clever idea.

    NEWYORKER: Great Experiment

  • But the expansion of the system of suspicious activity reports (SARs) is swamping the National Criminal Intelligence Service, the authority responsible for processing and analysing them and then passing them on to prosecutors and police.

    BBC: Analysis

  • Almost a year after floods devastated Pakistan, swamping 5.8 million acres of farmland and displacing millions of people, Ashaq Malik, who grows cotton, sugarcane and wheat on 865 acres in Punjab province, has reason to feel optimistic.

    FORBES: Yes, Virginia. There Really Is Some Good News In Pakistan.

  • After swamping Florida in the Elite Eight on Sunday, Michigan will face Syracuse, which on Saturday held Marquette to a pathetic 39 points in 40 minutes roughly what you could score if you threw cans of frozen peas from the stadium's upper deck.

    WSJ: Jason Gay | A Heart-Stopping Moment in Indy

  • In the Biblical narrative that Benedict had in mind, the followers of Jesus experienced more a spot of turbulence: the giant waves heaving round their boat were swamping them and they thought they were going to drown, until their master awoke and calmed the tempest.

    ECONOMIST: Benedict's departure

  • However, the Pumas' limited match plan of swamping the opposition with deep kicks and relentless forward play finally came unstuck against a South Africa side who go into next weekend's final as favorites to stop England's bid to become the first nation to retain the title.

    CNN: Springboks face England in final

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定