The comparison may seem over the top.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Such loans would have been unacceptable in a floating rate regime, because they threatened to move the exchange rate too far for the health of the economies.

It takes more votes to elect a Conservative than a Labour MP, owing to the over representation of urban Britain and some majority Labour parts of the country.

In January, for example, Abbott informed a startled Davos conference that the global financial crisis was caused not by unregulated global markets, but rather by too much governance.

By the 1990's, his media group was in trouble, weakened by excessive diversification (the decision to enter the retail distribution business almost destroyed the group).

He has antagonized the world more than any other American president before him, seriously damaging America s soft power by inefficient and excessive use of its hard power.

As Premier Wen Jiabao recently emphasized, China must now undertake comprehensive measures to control mounting inflation, growing asset bubbles, and an overheating economy.

After slavery ended, the once beautiful island could barely sustain the former slave populations because the soils were exhausted by overuse and erosion.

The 1980 s Latin American crisis was caused by excessive borrowing but that could not explain Mexico s 1994 crisis, so it was attributed to under saving.

A recession caused by too much debt and leverage (first in the private sector, and then on public balance sheets) will require a long period of spending less and saving more.

This then leads to more bad assets and non performing loans, more excessive investment in real estate, infrastructure, and industrial capacity, and more public and private debt.

Of course, in the midst of so much uncertainty, it is remarkable that the over indebted countries consolidation efforts remain broadly on track but the European Central Bank s continued bond buying and liquidity support is only a temporary palliative.

Thus, although China s total money supply seems excessive, with the M2 to GDP ratio now at about 190 , the real monetary base is actually much smaller than it appears.

The constitutional treaty was originally designed to streamline the system, and it was only later that it was over enthusiastically expanded into the lengthy and pompous document that is now a dead letter.

Third, they cite treaty related and constitutional difficulties in establishing rules and procedures that would simulate a fiscal union. Finally, the need to move ahead with European unification in order to legitimize the inevitable infringement of over indebted countries sovereignty might eventually infringe upon German sovereignty as well.

They mistakenly believe that yen appreciation during the mid 1980 s caused Japan s weak economic performance in the 1990 s. Rather, we now know that Japan s economic difficulties were caused by the growth, and then collapse, of a huge asset bubble, and the failure to use monetary policy to prevent deflation after the bubble burst.

Syrians have experienced uninterrupted dictatorship for 40 years, and, with it, extreme economic hardship, including high unemployment, rising food prices, and endemic corruption.

He has antagonized the world more than any other American president before him, seriously damaging America s soft power by inefficient and excessive use of its hard power.

Finally, the need to move ahead with European unification in order to legitimize the inevitable infringement of over indebted countries sovereignty might eventually infringe upon German sovereignty as well.

Thus, they still face a trade off between pushing unemployment too low, and setting off an episode of inflation, and not pushing hard enough, resulting in an unnecessary waste of economic resources.

Placing particular emphasis on the regions of the world where conflicts have come to an end and where serious problems with the excessive and destabilizing accumulation of small arms and light weapons have to be dealt with urgently,

This enabled a consumption binge, which meant that debt was created without a corresponding asset, and encouraged excessive investment in real estate, resulting in excess capacity that will take years to eliminate.

The failure to contain the crisis will ultimately be traced, I think, to excessive concern with the first two subsidiary objectives reining in Wall Street princes and keeping economic decision making private.

Perhaps three quarters of Israelis and Palestinians are eager for peace and compromise, while a quarter on each side often fueled by extreme religious zeal wants a complete victory over the other.

Although the IMF seems particularly enthusiastic about using wealth taxes to resolve debt overhangs in Spain and Italy, some burden sharing with the north seems reasonable.

Stress is generally defined as the state that results when the brain instructs the body to make changes in order to adapt to a new or excessive demand and the individual perceives that the demand will exceed the personal resources which he or she has available.

They are taking a much more active and public role in speaking out against bribery, corruption, and excessive pay packages, and in favor of corporate social responsibility and fair labor practices.

I am writing this in New York in early August, when the mayor declared a heat emergency to prevent widespread electricity outages from the expected high use of air conditioners.

With a worsening recession, many LBOs that were loaded with too much debt and not enough equity will fail as firms with lower profits or higher losses become unable to service their loans.