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    1. Among the barbarous nations who overran the western provinces of the Roman empire, the performance of contracts was left for many ages to the faith of the contracting parties


    2. When the German and Scythian nations overran the western provinces of the Roman empire, the confusions which followed so great a revolution lasted for several centuries


    3. To me, sensitivity training is somewhat analogous to the re-education imposed on the South Vietnamese people after their North Vietnamese conquerors overran Saigon in 1975


    4. 23 But howsoever, said he, let me run; And he said to him, Run; Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi


    5. Fortunately we overran their cannon battery before they could turn them on us


    6. While the Roman Emperor Constantinus had become Kristau there had been a lot of backsliding and heresy, which God had to punish; that was why the barbarians overran the empire


    7. a multitude of animals overran it on both sides and stretched back into the distance until they


    8. they quickly overran the commands of their handlers and stampeded down the road scattering


    9. 1 Throughout the evening following this great outburst of healing, the rejoicing and happy throng overran Zebedee's home, and the apostles of Jesus were keyed up to the highest pitch of emotional enthusiasm


    10. Screams of pain rang out as the West Ham gang overran their enemy and most of the Manchester boys ran for safety

    11. Supported by a single MMARV, he advanced on the emplacement and overran it


    12. The car and its occupant overran the corner and hit the baobab tree at the junction between Millionaires Row, where Brownfield lived, and the main road to the club


    13. Highlighting this scenario; in the summer of 1940, Germany overran Denmark, Norway, and the Low Countries


    14. And it was that charter granting exclusive rights to a private trade enterprize that would play a very instrumental role in forging what would become the mighty British Empire for the little island nation that had been overran by Germans, Romans, Norsemen and even Frenchmen with Norse


    15. In 221 BC the armies of Qin (pronounced "Ch'in," as in China – See Hero and The Curse of the Golden Flower by Zang Zimou) overran


    16. The second plague of Egypt, when frogs overran the land of Egypt,


    17. “The city garrison almost strung Nat Breldin up by his neck,” he told me as soon as he got me alone, “but before they dropped the hatch a mob of White-Ship rebels overran the scaffold and rescued Nat and six other fellows in the name of the real Lauriads that’s gone missing


    18. Especially since the humans overran it


    19. “They overran this place and killed us all!”


    20. They even overran the north of Egypt

    21. Rose quickly overran Stone’s list of countries that Alexander had conquered, with another trivial question; before Stone could even finish the doleful list


    22. The military said it had killed more than a hundred militants, but then on the first day of November around 700 Taliban overran an army position at Khwazakhela


    23. gathered and gloom overran the sea until the moon came up


    24. He’d made that point to Mahkswail with cold, savage precision … and then informed the colonel that four of his cousins had been massacred by the Army of God when Cahnyr Kaitswyrth overran General Charlz Stahntyn’s fifteen-thousand-man force south of Aivahnstyn the previous summer


    1. He could either stay and get overrun or he could run and try to make a break for it


    2. The redsuits would be overrun in seconds and there was nothing he could do


    3. Talstan had overrun China's ancient holdings on Earth generations ago, by the time the war started, and captured all their mortals


    4. The fabric of Bethesda is overrun by rats and feral cats


    5. My time was where that lead, a ruined economy and a culture overrun and corrupted by foreigners


    6. During that time Talstan had overrun most of Siberia, then China and most of Russia


    7. I followed it back east past the cities of Minotia, Leflan and Argor where their populations were wiped-out and their walls overrun


    8. All of them aware that with every passing moment, their home was being overrun


    9. "No wonder your streets are overrun by electric chip shops, twenty-four hour snooker emporia and secondhand fruit importers," he says


    10. So what would then have caused the Flood and what could have happened that resulted in the entire Earth being overrun and covered with water?

    11. History lesson: How many of us are aware that, had the Ottoman Turks not overrun that city, the last bastion of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 1453, thus cutting off overland trade routes to Cathay and other places east


    12. planned and executed an attack to overrun the Union’s post at


    13. That was during the Bone Wars, when the Free Lands became overrun with demons that surged through the defences of the Green Border


    14. All Southern states had been overrun and occupied by the United


    15. Thesa's badgers were attacked with such hatred and ferocity, that for a moment, he thought they would be overrun straight away, but the black badger's bravery was a spur to those around him, and they managed to repel the first charge


    16. Nevertheless, with it supposedly finished, armored personnel carriers, helicopters and airplanes, offensive weapons that gave them the capacity to overrun Costa Rica in a matter of days, continued to arrive


    17. (Her parents’ estate had been overrun by an angry mob, the day after the Samosa family abandoned Managua


    18. Soon the forest will be overrun with the sounds of battle


    19. She nimbly stepped around those vacant-eyed wretches who wandered the fringe as she led her family toward and up the trail out of the clearing that now seemed overrun with desperate, nearly hopeless humanity


    20. Also overrun was the even longer ramp that came up the platform’s side from the ground

    21. ” Such skeptics felt the environmental movement, though noble in purpose at its inception, had in the past decade become overrun by Marxists


    22. soldiers were holding back a group of angry Afghans who wanted to overrun them


    23. by the time that Moses was born that the Egyptians were scared of being overrun with


    24. punished it by letting it be overrun by wild tribes from the north and east, both Alemaneira (German) and Eslaveira (Slav) who eventually overthrew it about a thousand years ago


    25. I added that while we could easily overrun Espanya, we might have trouble holding it since it was so unhealthy


    26. Our films and programs are overrun with clichés


    27. meetings often overrun and if they don’t you still find that there was


    28. meetings often overrun and if they don’t you still find that there was insufficient time


    29. In the book Judges we read the story of Deborah who judged Israel at a time when the Israelites turned from God and His judgement led to the country being overrun by Jobin, king of the Canaanites


    30. more midwives, as they were paid so little and were overrun

    31. "Got himself full of mortar frags on the ground at Loc Ninh when the VC tried to overrun it one night last week


    32. "Why, for Chrissakes, the guards? They think VC overrun their hooch the minute they go? Or some Nguyen down the street come diddle the old lady?" Bates hawked a laugh at that one


    33. He said that during six months and nearly five hundred hours of FAC-time that he hasn't seen ground fire like that since the VC tried to overrun Plei Mei last October," Bannister said


    34. The reassuring dream message of the night before had seemed to wither before the tense, surprise-filled occurrences that had overrun his day


    35. His ARVN field force had been overrun and he was declared MIA


    36. We think the VC want to overrun some politically and militarily important places because the South Vietnamese elections are coming up and the communists want to show how badly the South is doing


    37. We have negative contact with China Boy since 0532 this morning when they said they had a heavy TIC (Troops in Contact) and were about to be overrun


    38. This menacing wall dashed its way up the empty bottom toward where it would overrun the old shore of the land that separated it from its northern cousin


    39. During summer it was overrun with nettles and bracken, but now, at the end of autumn, the packed mud along the length of it was just visible


    40. As I'm sure you've already seen the crowd of people have overrun us, and I

    41. before had seemed to wither before the tense, surprise-filled occurrences that had overrun his


    42. would overrun the old shore of the land that separated it from its northern cousin


    43. "What the heck are cabbage rolls?" Trask muttered, wondering what Frankie thought of all this fiction—but he was overrun by Carl


    44. The gas light came on and I found a gas station that didn’t look to overrun


    45. We lost Bucharest, the Russian bastards have overrun Estonia, and the Americans


    46. They were about to be overrun when Thalia told her satyr to take the other two half-bloods to safety while she held off the monsters


    47. the original colonists of the early settlement period who were all but overrun and supplanted


    48. The mammals with their superior cerebra and adaptability to climate and anything else you can throw at them have overrun the landmasses


    49. stories of colonies being overrun, of refugees looking to escape, of new ships moving about the


    50. He keeps a tab of the Santa Clauses and Jesuses… or is it ‘Jesi?’ No matter, he will show the ratio is fast approaching e to the power of pi with every year… and when it passes that number the demons will overrun the earth! Numbers don’t lie!












































    1. As things were, the approaching hordes of Hell weren’t as relentless as I would have hoped in their pursuit of overrunning our position; instead of simply barraging us with hellfire, storming the impromptu trenches and cover positions of what few defenders remained with their halberds, axes, scything claws and gaping maws, they were content to keep our heads down by taking occasional shots, keeping everyone busy by assaulting a position with enough force as to give ground


    2. 8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place of it, and darkness shall pursue his enemies


    3. Kerry and his gang had already gone to the forest camp, they learned, and there was the possibility he might have succeeded ion overrunning it


    1. When I arrived in February 1975, Admiral Rickover (SEA 08) had just forbidden Ingalls to build any more SSN’s due to their outrageous cost overruns and shoddy work (when compared to both EB and NNS)


    2. This contributed to Ingalls’ loss of overhauls—besides the exorbitant cost overruns


    3. When EB had cost overruns and/or delays on the 688’s, the


    4. · Dominant: a "strong" gene that overruns its weaker corresponding gene, the gene for green is dominant over the gene for blue


    5. was, first, to cover the cost overruns you created in your


    6. printout showing the cost overruns on his worship budget


    7. You have shown a large number of cost overruns in my


    8. overruns, unexpected costs an’ everythin’


    9. Often, cost overruns coupled with slow integration will require


    10. cost overruns and so there is some risk, especially in time to market, for this

    11. “That without money or insurance Roopdetah would be allowed to pass away due to cost overruns


    12. A component of the evaluation phase is problem management, in that there are inevitably problems in timing, cost overruns, and the way resources are managed


    13. or face additional delays or cost overruns


    14. For example, luxury handbag maker Louis Vuitton is able to consistently charge a higher price for its handbags compared to its competitor Gucci because Louis Vuitton will destroy overruns rather than sell them through discount channels


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    Synonyms for "overrun"

    overproduction overrun infest brim over overflow run over well over invade swarm spread overwhelm ravage beset plague sack storm defeat occupy raid beat

    "overrun" definitions

    too much production or more than expected


    invade in great numbers


    occupy in large numbers or live on a host


    flow or run over (a limit or brim)


    seize the position of and defeat


    run beyond or past