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Shortly after, the rioters overpowered the officers and stormed into the building, chanting “treason” and “our house.”
WOMAN DIES AFTER SHOOTING IN U.S. CAPITOL; D.C. NATIONAL GUARD ACTIVATED AFTER MOB BREACHES BUILDINGWASHINGTON POST STAFFJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt’s a nice, calming effect — though one that can sometimes be overpowered by the tail noise.
AN EARNEST REVIEW OF A ROBOTIC CAT PILLOWBRIAN HEATERDECEMBER 30, 2020TECHCRUNCHThe Great Falls resident overpowered the course to fire a tournament-record of 16-under-par 194, eclipsing the previous mark by eight shots at the par-70 layout and finishing five strokes ahead of Chase Nevins, a teammate at Langley.
KELLY CHINN, A SENIOR AT LANGLEY HIGH SCHOOL, NAMED JUNIOR BOYS’ GOLFER OF THE YEARGENE WANGOCTOBER 28, 2020WASHINGTON POSTAccording to one conspirator, on a foggy night after the weapons had been loaded onto trucks, a group of men overpowered the shipment’s guards, who were gagged, bundled into a car and driven to a country house outside Moscow.
THE MOBSTER WHO BROUGHT ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN TOGETHER … IN DEATHFIONA ZUBLINOCTOBER 9, 2020OZYA middle school teacher in Sheboygan told me that kids were spending the whole day in the same classroom, and the smell of sanitizer was overpowering.
THE STUDENTS LEFT BEHIND BY REMOTE LEARNINGBY ALEC MACGILLISSEPTEMBER 28, 2020PROPUBLICAA present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThe moment he raised his war-cry, they would overpower the soldiers, and then the castle would offer no resistance.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONA marine sufficient to overpower that of Spain must be, not merely equipped and manned, but created.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYThere was in her so much of impulsive generosity that he had expected to overpower her scruples.
THE HIGHGRADERWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINEBut as yet this faction was not strong enough to overpower him.
THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS, VOLUME 03VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO OVERPOWER
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