He says the global economy must change to a sustainable system now before social issues and ecological degradation become overwhelming.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

But one thing I've heard, a report I read recently that disturbes me is that the overwhelming majority of the officers are Tadzhiks.

但是我还听到一件事，我看到一篇报道说到,让我有些担心,绝大多数的官员是塔吉克斯坦人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

We'll see more about that in a minute, in part because of its overwhelming religious influence and that's one reason, besides the quest for a port on the sea, why he builds St. Petersburg.

稍后,我们会再次谈到这一点,他之所以建造圣彼得堡,除了要建立一个出海口这个原因,还因为莫斯科的宗教势力根深蒂固

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So when you put these observational studies together with a 'gold standard' clinical trial, the findings are overwhelming."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

What happened finally, is that the press got wind of this and the scientific evidence grew to such a large mass that the evidence was pretty overwhelming, and then finally, government took action on this.

最终是先由新闻界得到风声,然后科学依据如雨后春笋般涌现,强而有力,势不可挡,最后终于让政府按耐不住,开始行动

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The comments followed an overwhelming vote in the U.N.General Assembly on a non-binding resolution condemning the 47-year-old U.S.trade embargo against Cuba and urging Washington to lift the restrictions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

It's just kind of overwhelming." The modest Holcomb, a stocky man who sports a beard, said he is not the one who deserves all the credit in his black USA-1 sled dubbed "Night Train."

VOA: standard.2010.02.28