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.

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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.

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

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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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