1.   However, he conceded, public demand for effective anti-fat drugs may be so strong it could overwhelm efforts to restrict their use.

2.   She is admirable, but not perfect, and even her superhuman efforts are overwhelmed by circumstances.

3.   The fact that booming global imports have overwhelmed federal efforts to protect the public from food-borne disease is recognized, say investigators from the General Accounting Office.

4.   The four lawmakers smiled when a reporter asked whether their effort might be overwhelmed by a presidential commission studying some or all of the same issues.

5.   The newcomers acquit themselves nicely even if their efforts are ultimately overwhelmed by all the sneering.

6.   The virtuality of cyberspace overwhelms our efforts toward clarity and verification because the potential for change implicit in the technology distracts us from taking any idea seriously.

7.   Ultimately, though, the number of needy overwhelmed this effort, and crowds circled the center once again.

8.   He said the lesson is that logistical problems can overwhelm humanitarian efforts.

9.   His effort was overwhelmed by the campaign to bring the decommissioned battleship Missouri -- on which the Japanese surrendered -- from Bremerton, Wash., this year.

10.   Lack of toilets and running water overwhelmed efforts by relief agencies to help.