She is extremely powerful in combat, although she is occasionally overwhelmed by Herve, who was about to kill her, until JC stepped in and was killed in her place.

Despite their lack of a hard shell, the huge adult faces fewer serious predators, though it is occasionally overwhelmed and preyed on by very large marine predators such as orcas, great white sharks and tiger sharks.

And the well-intentioned, if occasionally overwhelmed, servers are quick with a smile regardless of the hour.

Despite her support for her husband's work, she was occasionally overwhelmed by Durrell's total devotion to it, and felt that the zoo took over their lives and left them with no free space to develop their own relationship.

Vidal's book, which includes his own digs at McDonald's and other large companies, is most interesting when he sticks to the story of Steel and Morris, who emerge as stubborn and highly principled, if occasionally overwhelmed.

Michele Lagrange does remarkably well with much of Fata Morgana's writing but is occasionally overwhelmed.

Because of their inferior numbers, they are occasionally overwhelmed by greater forces.

In the first game of the season, the linemen seemed confused at times and were occasionally overwhelmed by the San Francisco 49ers' quick linebackers.

The Manhattan Philharmonic, which contains many freelancers familiar to New York audiences, gave firm support in these works, though even its 69 players were occasionally overwhelmed by the chorus.

This factor was evident in the play of Sergei Zubov, an attacking defenseman who was occasionally overwhelmed by the forechecking of the bigger Flyer forwards.