5 sentences with 'overwhelmingly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overwhelmingly and other words derived from it.
• « For the first two centuries of its existence, Rome was overwhelmingly powerful, and its political institutions were strong enough to survive even prolonged periods of incompetent rule. »
• « Meanwhile, Scotland was largely Presbyterian (Scottish Calvinist), and Ireland, which had been colonised by the English from the 16th century onwards, was overwhelmingly Catholic. »
• « However, the two countries were in many respects poles apart: Britain was an advanced industrial economy with a liberal constitution and a monarchy whose real political power diminished over time, while Russia was an overwhelmingly agricultural - even feudal - economy with a powerful autocratic head of state: the tsar. »
• « The Russian economy was overwhelmingly agricultural and rural, and industrialisation only came at the turn of the century in some of the large cities in and around western Russia. »
• « Today's cinema overwhelmingly depicts people without partners. And the few films that deal with a family tend to feature radically dysfunctional marriages: a husband accused of trying to murder his wife; or a wife who sleeps with her husband's mistress; or a marriage that ends up killing each other. »