Just as corner shops give way to supermarkets, so single-screen cinemas may soon be overpowered by megaplexes.

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Indeed, a tentative Mayweather looked vulnerable for perhaps the first time in his career, and for a moment it looked as if he might be overpowered.

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So while a mismanaged emerging economy was bound to hit trouble in international capital markets, even a well managed but small economy might be overpowered by the force of vast international capital flows.

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At the time the river was virtually an open sewer, with the Houses of Parliament once having to be abandoned because MPs were "overpowered by the smell, " according to the official Diamond Jubilee Pageant website .

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Her rivals for the opening grand slam of the season will be hoping that is not the case and certainly the overpowered Pavlyuchenkova was in awe of her opponent.

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At a time when the American people are already being overpowered in Washington by these forces, this will be a new and even more powerful weapon that the special interests will wield.

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And the classy quartet of Jack Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Luke Durbridge and Michael Hepburn overpowered the Russian team in the final, proving they could be a threat to the British team in London.

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The jury will be asked to consider if the wife's will had been so overpowered that she had been impelled to commit the offence because she had truly believed she had had no real choice in the matter.

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In a generation where blogosphere has overpowered the conventional mainstream media, Web 2.0 services have to be highly dynamic and proactive.

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