Here he stood a while, like one who makes a last stand against overpowering strength, thrusting and striking furiously.

United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp., 315 U.S. 289, 300 (1942) ("The word duress implies feebleness on one side, overpowering strength on the other."

Chef Ramsay pointed out to the women there was such an overpowering strength of garlic that was completely obliterating anything he tasted.

It would work in Reality because Raven has such overpowering strength.

The overpowering strength of the British fleet enabled it to occupy the Chesapeake and to attack and destroy numerous docks and harbours.

Patrick Ewing (26 points, 19 rebounds) used guile, experience and determination to counter the overpowering strength of Shaquille O'Neal (26 points, 5 rebounds).

He is able to compensate for his lack of overpowering strength with good defensive positioning and active stick-checking.

The two-hundred-and-ten-pound physicist gave one convulsive heave of dismay; and then seemed to accept the overpowering strength of those thin, hard muscles.

In an N.F.L. in which speed and strategy play critical roles, a player like Rayburn confirms that brute, overpowering strength still has a vital place on the defensive line.

He understood that the poor woman would not wish to speak, he knew as well as she did the overpowering strength of his helpless appeal.