The Constitution, however, in spite of the opposition, was overwhelmingly ratified.
Tompkins, for president, showed Bucktail delegates overwhelmingly in the majority.
The public sentiment wasoverwhelmingly and enthusiastically in favour of the seceders.
Nothing is more Christian than such silent approval, and the eternal reward, which must follow, is so overwhelmingly great that the applause of the world may well be disregarded.
They did not even realise that the devastation had better be effected by the British in this defensive--and in its results at the same time overwhelmingly offensive--manner than by the French in the course of a conquering onslaught.
But on ethnical grounds Dalmatia is now overwhelmingly Slavonic.
Always the vision, of anything overwhelmingly beautiful seemed to fill her soul, drawing with it the memories of all that had been beautiful in life.
These citizens elected delegates to a constituent assembly, but at this point the bolshevists, seeing that the voters of Russia were overwhelmingly against bolshevism, attacked the new government.
Where competition is so restricted and safeguarded, advocates of capitalism assert that the results are overwhelmingly good.
The first success of the Bolsheviki was the dissolution by bayonets of the Constituent Assembly, which for forty years had been the goal of all Russians--even of the Bolsheviki up to the time when they found it overwhelmingly against them.
It is remarkable, therefore, that all the evidence independently sifted in that investigation overwhelmingly points to the same conclusions arrived at in this volume.
Roebuck withdrew his motion, not because of any imminent Southern victory, but because he knew that if pressed to a vote it would be overwhelmingly defeated.
But the national tide was then overwhelmingly against the Whigs, and Southern distrust of General Scott and Northern wrath at the circumstances of his nomination brought that party to the Waterloo defeat from which it never recovered.
The Federal official reports are overwhelmingly in confirmation of these views of General Jackson.
This contest, indeed, so long waged, was, many years since, decided overwhelmingly against the South.
The forces he had on foot overwhelmingly outnumbered those of the Brazilians in Uruguay and Rio Grande.
The several military expeditions which the Government had sent into the West had either been overwhelmingly defeated by the combined forces of Indians, or had accomplished nothing toward subduing the red men.
Whether he would have succeeded in flanking the Wyandots, had everything remained as it was, is an open question, for the conditions were overwhelmingly against him.
And as the knowledge swept overwhelmingly upon her, the last poor shred of her pride crumbled to nothing in a rush of anguished tears.
And suddenly she realisedoverwhelmingly how close his lips were to her own.
Such candor and assurance are always overwhelmingly impressive; and in every forum of debate are regarded as unmistakable signs of truth.
She would neither eat nor drink, so absorbed was she in this strange man who so overwhelmingly imposed his personality upon her until she felt that she was merely part of the furniture of the room.
When the Civil War broke out, the sympathies of Canadians were overwhelmingly on the side of the North.
The soldiers' vote, contrary to Australian experience, was overwhelmingly for conscription.
Iowa came first, and, in August, went Republican, and was joined in September by Maine and Vermont, bothoverwhelmingly Republican.
The instruction of the Democratic State delegations was overwhelmingly in favor of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the matter was decided long before the Democratic Convention met.
The election went overwhelmingly for the convention and for the Radical candidates.
Strobach was the carpet-bag sheriff of Montgomery County, which was overwhelmingly black.
North Alabama before the war was overwhelmingly Democratic and was called "The Avalanche" from the way it overran the Whiggish counties of the southern and central sections.
In a 1967 referendum, Gibraltarians ignored Spanish pressure and voted overwhelmingly to remain a British dependency.
Trade deficits are made up for by remittances from emigrants and by foreign aid, overwhelmingly from New Zealand.
These organizations exist among the girls as well as boys, but differ in the purpose for which they are formed, the girls organizing more as adults, while the boys' clubs are overwhelmingly to expend energy, lawfully or otherwise.
The memory of a little child is overwhelmingly for the concrete, the impressions through the senses and from what he does being far more easily retained than ideas alone.
The Republicans won, although the district was overwhelmingly Democratic, and Murray joined the Republican Party.
At Cold Harbor there was, to say the least, a possibility that Grant, with his overwhelmingly superior numbers, might break through the Confederate lines, and force his way into Richmond.
He had already thrust Sickles in between Lee and Jackson, and in order to maintain the separation he had onlyoverwhelmingly to reinforce Sickles, an enterprising officer.
Having been overwhelmingly shamed by his error, it would have been like him to stand bravely and confess his wrong.
Hampstead knew instinctively and without one word of assurance that these men, at first overwhelmingly convinced of his guilt by what they had seen, and then bewildered by his manner, now believed in him absolutely.
Judge Emery was in the state in which of late the end of the day's work found him--overwhelmingly fatigued.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overwhelmingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
