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In large amounts, alcohol can overwhelm the gut, promoting intestinal inflammation and increasing harmful bacteria … (which) can lead to a wide range of health problems. – Angie Asche	Found on CNN 12 months ago
For the light (of the fireball) to overwhelm the brightness of the day, it was a significant event. – Darryl Pitt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s intimidating to think about friendship in adulthood, and often overwhelm keeps us from even trying. – Adam Smiley Poswolsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Prospectively, as a key offensive weapon of our military forces, it will carry out its own combat mission to overwhelm the enemy. – Kim Jong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If some disproportionately White communities weren't annexed, Black political power would in time overwhelm White political power, hartsfield had developed a kind of coalition between Bill White and Black political power. Bill White basically said,' If you don't have this( coalition), you'll have an increasingly Black city or, in the short run, an increasingly racist, predominantly White government. And we need to maintain a White majority.'. – Dan Immergluck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We want to believe the omicron cases could be mild, but its fast-paced infections could quickly multiply the number of patients and could still overwhelm hospitals. – Shigeru Omi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I want to send a direct message to the American people: Due to the steps we've taken, omicron has not yet spread as fast as it would have otherwise done, but it's here now, and it's spreading, and it's going to increase ... We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated – for themselves, their families and the hospitals they'll soon overwhelm. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's the combination. It's kind of the perfect storm of public health impacts here with Delta already impacting many areas of the country and jurisdictions, we don't want to overwhelm systems more. – Lori Tremmel Freeman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Make small goals, we overwhelm ourselves by saying we will eat healthy and work out and we keep it so vague. – Shannon Newhouse	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Some of you laugh to scorn the idea of bloodshed as the result of secession, but let me tell you what is coming….Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet….You may after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence…but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of state rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction…they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South. – Sam Houston	added by Normando 2 years ago
sometimes it’s the senseless feelings which overwhelm you, the despair and frustration which build to dangerous levels and the subsequent release, the cigarettes, alcohol, nameless fucks, nights spent in the drunk tank. the cats howling outside the window know this and they act accordingly. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
There is a mom revolution and it is going to overwhelm everything. … Suburban moms, moms with kids in school, they have had enough, they’re furious over the fact that schools never opened back up. They’re educated on the fact that many of these masking requirements are total crap. – Clay Travis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That in itself will just overwhelm the port facilities, you're not able to get the cargo off the ports when you consider the backlogs within the rail and the road network. – Jonathan Daniels	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If one were to draw a graph of vaccine coverage versus danger, it would be a linear progression, the greater the vaccine coverage, the less the dangers and the other way around, of course, we want to get to 90 % coverage, it is a tall order globally. If we get to 70 % and stay there, there will be many sporadic outbreaks which may overwhelm health services. Worse, it will create more chances for the virus to mutate and variants of concern to emerge. – Bharat Pankhania	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Intelligence always impressed Linda, but they couldn’t have been more different. She was a tall, lanky blondish brown hair gal who had a lot of friends and had worked a long time for one company. Paul was short… not very good-looking and didn’t really have a penny to his name, although he dressed well and spoke so eloquently. He had the ability to overwhelm you with his intelligence. She was really taken by that and overlooked everything else. – Merry Seabold	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Starting last year- since my husband got diagnosed -Ive been on a strange journey. Paddling a canoe in a stormy sea. My boys are in the back, scared but preoccupied. Sometimes the waves are smaller and easier to navigate, some days I lose my paddle and waves threaten to overwhelm. But I know my purpose is to get myself and my kids to safety, to the beach. – Paulina Porizkova	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We may see peaks of flu and COVID-19 at the same time, which could overwhelm the health care system, strain testing capacity and potentially reduce our ability to catch and treat both respiratory illnesses effectively. – Sarah Clark	Found on CNN 3 years ago
And that is also what we were worried about in Covid-19, whereas people get more severe disease, the inflammation in their lungs can overwhelm the system, and potentially cause really severe issues. – Stephanie Christenson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Do it now. If you haven't registered to vote yet, do it now. Don't think about it. When your ballot comes with enough lead time, make a decision and send it in. That's one thing you can do to not overwhelm the system. – Jessica Levinson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That is really worrisome and as those numbers rise, we're seeing commensurate increases in the number of hospitalizations and ICU admissions, you get to the point where you overwhelm ICUs and that's when the mortality goes up. – Peter Hotez	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We can't open an attraction that might bring many people from outside the region and then overwhelm people in that region, you have a lot of pent-up demand. We have seen this before, where -- when we're not coordinated -- we have New York people going to Connecticut because Connecticut has parks or water slide access that's open. – Andrew Cuomo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The cash demand from what could be a large spike in missed payments would overwhelm the sector. – Robert Broeksmit	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm fighting to save our people and I need every person in Louisiana to fight with me, we have to slow the spread so we don't overwhelm our capacity for health care. – Bel Edwards	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is exactly what they do. Deploy the Army Corps of Engineers to come work with states to build temporary medical facilities. Get us backup beds so when the hospital is overwhelmed, we can have some of the people who are in the hospital beds go to a backup medical facility, if you don't do it, you know what is going to happen : You're going to overwhelm the hospitals. – Andrew Cuomo	Found on CNN 4 years ago

In large amounts, alcohol can overwhelm the gut, promoting intestinal inflammation and increasing harmful bacteria … (which) can lead to a wide range of health problems.

– Angie Asche

Found on CNN
12 months ago

For the light (of the fireball) to overwhelm the brightness of the day, it was a significant event.

– Darryl Pitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s intimidating to think about friendship in adulthood, and often overwhelm keeps us from even trying.

– Adam Smiley Poswolsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Prospectively, as a key offensive weapon of our military forces, it will carry out its own combat mission to overwhelm the enemy.

– Kim Jong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If some disproportionately White communities weren't annexed, Black political power would in time overwhelm White political power, hartsfield had developed a kind of coalition between Bill White and Black political power. Bill White basically said,' If you don't have this( coalition), you'll have an increasingly Black city or, in the short run, an increasingly racist, predominantly White government. And we need to maintain a White majority.'.

– Dan Immergluck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We want to believe the omicron cases could be mild, but its fast-paced infections could quickly multiply the number of patients and could still overwhelm hospitals.

– Shigeru Omi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to send a direct message to the American people: Due to the steps we've taken, omicron has not yet spread as fast as it would have otherwise done, but it's here now, and it's spreading, and it's going to increase ... We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated – for themselves, their families and the hospitals they'll soon overwhelm.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's the combination. It's kind of the perfect storm of public health impacts here with Delta already impacting many areas of the country and jurisdictions, we don't want to overwhelm systems more.

– Lori Tremmel Freeman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Make small goals, we overwhelm ourselves by saying we will eat healthy and work out and we keep it so vague.

– Shannon Newhouse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Some of you laugh to scorn the idea of bloodshed as the result of secession, but let me tell you what is coming….Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet….You may after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence…but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of state rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction…they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.

– Sam Houston

added by Normando
2 years ago

sometimes it’s the senseless feelings which overwhelm you, the despair and frustration which build to dangerous levels and the subsequent release, the cigarettes, alcohol, nameless fucks, nights spent in the drunk tank. the cats howling outside the window know this and they act accordingly.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

There is a mom revolution and it is going to overwhelm everything. … Suburban moms, moms with kids in school, they have had enough, they’re furious over the fact that schools never opened back up. They’re educated on the fact that many of these masking requirements are total crap.

– Clay Travis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That in itself will just overwhelm the port facilities, you're not able to get the cargo off the ports when you consider the backlogs within the rail and the road network.

– Jonathan Daniels

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If one were to draw a graph of vaccine coverage versus danger, it would be a linear progression, the greater the vaccine coverage, the less the dangers and the other way around, of course, we want to get to 90 % coverage, it is a tall order globally. If we get to 70 % and stay there, there will be many sporadic outbreaks which may overwhelm health services. Worse, it will create more chances for the virus to mutate and variants of concern to emerge.

– Bharat Pankhania

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Intelligence always impressed Linda, but they couldn’t have been more different. She was a tall, lanky blondish brown hair gal who had a lot of friends and had worked a long time for one company. Paul was short… not very good-looking and didn’t really have a penny to his name, although he dressed well and spoke so eloquently. He had the ability to overwhelm you with his intelligence. She was really taken by that and overlooked everything else.

– Merry Seabold

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Starting last year- since my husband got diagnosed -Ive been on a strange journey. Paddling a canoe in a stormy sea. My boys are in the back, scared but preoccupied. Sometimes the waves are smaller and easier to navigate, some days I lose my paddle and waves threaten to overwhelm. But I know my purpose is to get myself and my kids to safety, to the beach.

– Paulina Porizkova

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We may see peaks of flu and COVID-19 at the same time, which could overwhelm the health care system, strain testing capacity and potentially reduce our ability to catch and treat both respiratory illnesses effectively.

– Sarah Clark

Found on CNN
3 years ago

And that is also what we were worried about in Covid-19, whereas people get more severe disease, the inflammation in their lungs can overwhelm the system, and potentially cause really severe issues.

– Stephanie Christenson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Do it now. If you haven't registered to vote yet, do it now. Don't think about it. When your ballot comes with enough lead time, make a decision and send it in. That's one thing you can do to not overwhelm the system.

– Jessica Levinson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That is really worrisome and as those numbers rise, we're seeing commensurate increases in the number of hospitalizations and ICU admissions, you get to the point where you overwhelm ICUs and that's when the mortality goes up.

– Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We can't open an attraction that might bring many people from outside the region and then overwhelm people in that region, you have a lot of pent-up demand. We have seen this before, where -- when we're not coordinated -- we have New York people going to Connecticut because Connecticut has parks or water slide access that's open.

– Andrew Cuomo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The cash demand from what could be a large spike in missed payments would overwhelm the sector.

– Robert Broeksmit

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm fighting to save our people and I need every person in Louisiana to fight with me, we have to slow the spread so we don't overwhelm our capacity for health care.

– Bel Edwards

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is exactly what they do. Deploy the Army Corps of Engineers to come work with states to build temporary medical facilities. Get us backup beds so when the hospital is overwhelmed, we can have some of the people who are in the hospital beds go to a backup medical facility, if you don't do it, you know what is going to happen : You're going to overwhelm the hospitals.

– Andrew Cuomo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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