You could fire off (unintelligible), you could have decoys or you could simply overwhelm the system by sheer numbers.
Taken to the extreme, owners of clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City can attempt to overwhelm the opposition by assembling never-before-seen squads of immense cost (see first graph below) which results in unprecedented odds in their favor of winning the league title if they can get more of that talent on the pitch than the competition (see second graph below).
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This attempts to overwhelm a web server by sending it many more requests for data than it can handle.
DDoS attacks attempt to overwhelm a web server by sending it many more requests for data than it can handle.
However, such instruments are blinded by the intense infrared radiation emitted by flames, which overwhelm the sensitive detectors and limit their use in the field.
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In these scenarios, the British Isles could face an increase of slightly over a metre by 2100 - enough to overwhelm the Thames Barrier and see London flooded once every 10 years.
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We proliferate products and projects and programs and proposals each one of which makes good sense by itself, but in the aggregate overwhelm us, our organizations, and our customers.
Sandy was able to breach the brilliant engineering of The Bathtub, not by causing the walls to fail, but instead by causing the sea to rise and overwhelm the banks of the Island of Manhattan.
The purpose, obviously, was to overwhelm and intimidate to kill the opposition, question by question and audit by audit.
This type of payout doomed most of the companies that made or handled asbestos, since it allowed lawyers to process tens of thousands of claims by workers with smoking-related and naturally caused diseases and overwhelm trusts established to pay for asbestosis and mesothelioma.
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"The unrelenting growth in Internet traffic during 2007 may overwhelm some of the Internet's backbones, " according to a recent report by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Penned in by economic hardship, two costly wars and unfunded liabilities that threaten to overwhelm the nation's already drowned balance sheet, the toughest thing he'll have to combat are the high expectations surrounding his campaign promises.
Mounting questions and demands by Republican leaders, and some Democrats, over the controversies have threatened to overwhelm Obama's agenda less than four months into his second term.
The fear is that Chinese exports would "soon overwhelm the worldwide clothing market, " as the Washington Post put it, has been ratcheted up by the imminent prospect of decades-old international trade agreements ending at the end of the year.
Roared on by a vocal 27, 000 crowd, Mark Taylor and Gareth Thomas claimed the tries that helped overwhelm the dispirited Boks, giving Wales their first ever victory over the giants of the game.
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