Our debt-service costs may overwhelm us.

The cost of Social Security and Medicare once the Baby Boomers move into retirement will overwhelm the economy, he writes.

The cost of constructing the line, especially its 600 metre-long tunnel through the Eggegebirge overwhelmed the company and it filed for bankruptcy in 1848.

As the Administration tries to stabilize the economy to ward off inflation or recession, the war's cost may overwhelm all its calculations.

Nevertheless, the costs of purchasing an annuity could overwhelm the benefits.

Bruno Pietrosanti, a partner in the architectural firm that oversaw the work, speculates that costs may have overwhelmed business considerations.

Smaller hospitals worry that the extra costs of securing new insurance and resolving pending lawsuits may overwhelm them.

One concern, however, is whether the war's cost might overwhelm the automatic stabilizers.

The costs of opening a business here can easily overwhelm the savings from Vietnam's low-wage work force.

But the costs of these battles overwhelmed his rivals, and that was the intent.