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Example sentences for: overly

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For several of the organizations, these roles represented a dramatic reversal from past years, when security personnel were viewed as rigid, sometimes overly protective enforcers who often did not adequately consider the effect of security controls on business operations.
The Washington Times ' Brooke Allen likes the book, but complains that Eberstadt's tone becomes "overly messianic": It sometimes reads like a "pitch against the National Endowment for the Arts."
Other analysts point out, however, that if the economy is operating below the optimal saving rate, saving can rise without overly depressing market rates of return and, therefore, provide significant improvement to future incomes.
"Cassidy has made it clear in earlier writing that he does not like mainstream economists, and he may have been overly eager to accept a story that puts them in a bad light," he pronounces.
No, it isn't, says Clift, who doesn't think Americans are overly upset by sex-related cover-ups.