overwhelming success

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meaningsofoverwhelmingandsuccess

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overwhelming
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwel.mɪŋ/
difficult to ...
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success
noun
uk
/səkˈses/us
/səkˈses/
the achieving of the results wanted or ...
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(Definition ofoverwhelmingandsuccessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Small-scale producers have been gradually squeezed out of the pork industry due to theoverwhelmingsuccessof the vertically integrated corporate model.
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That trust, in turn, is a consequence of theoverwhelmingsuccessscience has had in enabling ordinary members of the community to negotiate the natural world.
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The nationalisation of the mining industry has already been proved anoverwhelmingsuccessby the concrete results that have been produced.
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I am not claiming, on the basis of three weeks' operation, that theoverwhelmingsuccessof the trial area has been proved.
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It has been a huge andoverwhelmingsuccess, and has far exceeded expectations.
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The policy is already proving anoverwhelmingsuccess.
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Does she agree that any such opposition would be a great pity because grant-maintained schools are proving to be such anoverwhelmingsuccess?
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It is increasingly being seen as anoverwhelmingsuccessfor the taxpayer, the consumer and the work force.
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It has to be said that the merits committees are not anoverwhelmingsuccess.
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As we have argued withoverwhelmingsuccesson previous occasions, it is not necessary to have such a section for that purpose.
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That may not be anoverwhelmingsuccess, but it is an achievement in the market that he has described.
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I believe that they are all minor and that the lottery has been anoverwhelmingsuccess.
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My view is that it was anoverwhelmingsuccess.
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Give the people proof that nothing short of everything is the limit of our effort, and their response will bringoverwhelmingsuccessto our cause.
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If that is a criterion, for the past few years there has been nooverwhelmingsuccess.
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Were not the same arguments deployed against bus privatisation, which has been anoverwhelmingsuccess?
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I believe that we have the experience in this country to ensure that nationalisation will be an unbounded andoverwhelmingsuccess.
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My brigade happened to be the first to do this, and it was done withoverwhelmingsuccess.
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Whatever one's political view, everybody would agree that the campaign was anoverwhelmingsuccess.
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We must not lose sight of the fact that this was anoverwhelmingsuccess.
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