#overwhelming

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#any #election #i #mandate #measurement

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#almost #become #come #exactly #exciting

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins. ↗

— Steven Chu

#brothers #came #cousins #emotions #entering

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#art #days #devote #energies #himself

One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

#colleagues #doing #happens #laboratory #most

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#citizen #civilisation #difficult #europe #evidence

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating. ↗

— William J. Perry

#against #allies #anyone #both #consequences

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#gravity #lick #overwhelming #paperwork #sometimes

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

#generosity #higher #kindness #level #likely