A bloody tide will overwhelm them..." "Well, it seems to me that the curse is for the humans, not us.
The tide overwhelmed you and you ran away in face of the enemy.
There's no place to go but north, and no matter how stringent the border controls, the human tide will overwhelm them unless this country becomes livable for more of its people.
The "tide of visitors," reported Captain Murray, "wherever we went, overwhelmed us."
A bloody tide will overwhelm them.
Without thriving cities, he argues, "the tide of human population must soon overwhelm whatever wilderness is left."
Visitors from the United States and elsewhere have drowned when swimming in coastal waters, where tides and wave patterns can change unexpectedly and overwhelm even excellent swimmers.
But a tide of discontent with managed care evidently overwhelmed the arguments made by the industry, in a multimillion-dollar campaign of lobbying and advertising.
Yet without their modest accomplishments, the protectionist tide would have overwhelmed the one sure means to open markets and expand economies.
The rising tide had overwhelmed her-shapeless, horrific-so that she closed herself off.