overwhelming need

collocation in English

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overwhelming
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwel.mɪŋ/
difficult to ...
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need
noun
uk
/niːd/us
/niːd/
the state of having to have something that you do not have, especially something that you must have so that you can have a ...
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(Definition ofoverwhelmingandneedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The limitations on the application of technology to prosthetics is very much based on theoverwhelmingneedfor the devices to be practical.
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There was anoverwhelmingneedto have a calm electorate able to assess the merits and demerits of entry.
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There is anoverwhelmingneedfor one authority to assume overall control and responsibility for our sea defences.
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I should like briefly to highlight theoverwhelmingneedto start to build bridges now between the worlds of conventional and non-conventional medicine.
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I understood immediately that there was anoverwhelmingneedfor the bypass to assist the economy of the southwest.
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It all adds up to a deliberate attempt to divide the nation when theoverwhelmingneedis to unite it.
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Therefore, there is anoverwhelmingneedfor additional powers for modernisation.
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The great need, theoverwhelmingneed, is for increased exports.
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Theoverwhelmingneedis to reduce total fish mortality.
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Is there not anoverwhelmingneedfor very much more education of the general public about the health hazards resulting from cigarette smoking?
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There is anoverwhelmingneedfor a stabilisation of cereal prices.
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There is anoverwhelmingneedthat there should be gathered together great organisations of workers to carry this work a great deal further.
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The oneoverwhelmingneedto-day is for greater understanding as a prelude to tolerance.
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There is anoverwhelmingneedfor rationalisation and considerable room for economies.
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I believe that there was anoverwhelmingneedand demand for that initiative to be taken.
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He identified theoverwhelmingneedfor a single, responsible body to co-ordinate what is happening.
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There is anoverwhelmingneedfor those who tender to be competitive.
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Theoverwhelmingneedis environmental, as the quality of life in the town centre is abysmal for those who have to work and live there.
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Beyond that, there is anoverwhelmingneedto provide exemption for those for whom it is medically inadvisable to wear a belt.
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There is anoverwhelmingneedto stimulate the application of research to industry.
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