The comparison may seem over the top.

If you don't call that excess, I'm sure I don't know what excess is.

But it's also, of course, to do with the massive crisis that followed excessive leverage, excessive borrowing in the private sector.

He ruined his health with drinking.

It is neither disproportionate nor excessive.

Not trusting official over reassurances, we become even more alarmed.

Others were awash in sectarian speech loaded with excessive fear and hatred.

Indeed, the draft resolution does not make clear what would be considered an excessive accumulation .

Nevertheless, this safety margin should not be excessive.

Due to excessive wear and tear, additional maintenance work was required.

This is a reflection of over fishing and unregulated fishing of a large number of species.

Untimely redeployment of funds by the Division results in excess expenditure at the field level.

He's one hundred and three years old reveling in his personal pain induced by excessive drug abuse.

Their decline is linked to over exploitation of other once common species.

Environmental problems associated with excessive use of fertilizers is generally a developed country problem.

Meaningful discourse cannot be limited by the narrowness of parameters or an overbearing sense of cultural supremacy.

The US economy has been sustained by a consumption boom fueled by excessive borrowing, and that will be curtailed.

No doubt, we live today in an extraordinarily unequal world.

Certain Member States had expressed concern about excessive increases in their rates of assessment.

It is the view of the Advisory Committee that, given the size of the Mission, the number of helicopters and aircraft appears excessive.

The author's conviction for such publication cannot be considered excessive in the context of the conditions obtaining in the State party.

It also disregards the risks created by the excessive accumulation of conventional weapons, in particular in areas of tension.

It goes from slave trade to over consumption of sugar with some sweet moments in between.

Their suffering was compounded by excessive and indiscriminate violence and systematic violations of human rights committed by the occupying forces.

Inclusiveness can too easily become excessively concerned with political correctness and not subject to critical scrutiny.

However, it may lead to lack of focus and to excessive demand on the same international partners.

76. The term of 12 years prescribed in article 7 of the draft statute for the judges of the international criminal court was excessive.

The amount of marble used for renovation seemed excessive, and the understanding of what constitutes luxury appeared to correspond to the standards of a Holiday Inn.

Giving people less control might be a wonderful way to counter the abundance of choice and make them happier.

(Only one officer had been convicted for shooting an unarmed man lying face down and his sentence had been suspended). Had there been any attempt to assign Roma monitors to police departments as a means of controlling the excessive use of force?

As to the issue of proportionality, the Committee noted that, while a cut off date of 23 days prior to the election was unusually long, it did not need to pronounce itself on the compatibility per se of the cut off date with article 19, paragraph 3, since the author's initial act of publishing previously unreported opinion polls took place within seven days of the election.

Moreover, the peripheral countries large current account deficits, fueled as they were by excessive consumption, were accompanied by economic stagnation and loss of competitiveness.

The Europeans in particular the French complained about what General Charles de Gaulle termed the exorbitant privilege of the US dollar.

Interestingly, a government advisory warned the public that they can suffer from mental stress resulting from over consumption of news.

Due to its inability to police its waters, they are regularly overfished by illegal foreign trawlers.

(a) A heightened concern about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and weapons technology, as well as excessive and destabilizing build ups of conventional weapons

We are concerned that there may be a lessening of political will to deal with conventional weapons, their transfers and excessive build up.

The result could be more severe variations in climate, with too much water in some regions and not enough in others.

This argument was always emphasized when the Chinese surplus was deemed excessive, but it is virtually ignored when it comes to northern Europe.

Quicker, more accurate diagnoses will curb the current overreliance on antibiotics a key requirement for combating resistance.

He is personally perhaps the most capable man in the present C.C., but he has displayed excessive self assurance and shown excessive preoccupation with the purely administrative side of the work.

Don't you call it excess when a man never lets a day go by without stepping into some tavern, bringing home a lot of riffraff?

Whether that stagnation took the form of excessive debt overhang or deteriorating terms of trade, it was a threat to the social stability of the developing countries.

But it might also mean an end to America s position at the center of the world s financial system and thus an end to its own exorbitant privilege.

proportionality the principle of proportionality requires that the collateral civilian losses resulting from a military action should not be excessive in relation to the expected military advantage.