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In this season we often suffer from an excess of rain.
Never spend in excess of your income.
You shouldn't eat to excess.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
And is not the bodily pain which follows every excess a manifest declaration of the divine will?
Some soft drinks have very high sugar content and can cause obesity and tooth decay if consumed to excess.
He drinks to excess.
How much per kilo for excess?
You can't take any excess baggage on the plane.
Don't drink to excess.
The population of Hong Kong is in excess of seven million.
Excess of politeness is annoying.
I'm sorry, but you'll have to pay an excess weight fee.
Movie subtitles
You guys have everything in excess.
Excess perspiration is often a problem for ladies undergoing the change of life.
And your body overindulged in sexual excess.
Even including excess of virtue itself.
I thought writers drank to excess and beat their wives.
I told him to pay the excess, and he turned nasty.
For one day, in an excess of jealous rage, he strangled her, and then sat down in front of the mirror your mirror and cut his throat.
You have 16 pounds excess baggage, Mr. Gibbons.
So I just followed that 90 pounds of excess baggage to Mexico City.
No excess is absurd.
To excess?
Don't you call it excess when a man never lets a day go by. without stepping into some cheap tavern, bringing home a lot of riffraff, people you never heard of?
If you don't call that excess, Doctor, I'm sure I don't know what excess is.
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?
If you don't call that excess, I'm sure I don't know what excess is.
No co-pilots, no excess baggage.
These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.
Excess dividends.
Stalin, too- but their error was not one of excess. It was simply not going far enough.
We got one passenger in excess.
And do you know what they've done already with that excess profits tax?
Is not this an excess of your imagination?
I beg you not to ruin yourselfbefore you start by loading your pack with excess baggage.
You mean, he drank to excess?
News and current affairs
Kagame then suggested giving every country an annual per capita quota for CO2 emissions, and allowing developing countries that are below the quota to trade their excess quota with countries that are above theirs.
It would give developing nations a strong incentive to accept mandatory quotas, because if they can keep their per capita emissions low, they will have excess emissions rights to sell to the industrialized nations.
But this excess growth has not been evenly spread.
Indeed, the credit channel is frozen and velocity has collapsed, with banks hoarding increases in base money in the form of excess reserves.
Governments absorb the excess of private savings over private investment and re-inject it into the global economy, thereby stabilizing aggregate demand and the financial system.
Record-low interest rates in 2001, 2002 and 2003 did not lead Americans to invest more - there was already excess capacity.
Interestingly, both sides cite America's gaping trade deficit - believe it or not, the US is soaking up two-thirds of global excess saving - to support their arguments.
Global commodity prices will collapse, and prices for many goods and services will stop rising so quickly as unemployment and excess capacity grow.
If they take their fiscal deficits (and a potential monetization of these deficits) seriously and raise taxes, reduce spending, and mop up excess liquidity, they could undermine the already weak recovery.
A normal gap between supply and demand for some subset of currently produced commodities is not a serious problem, because it is balanced by excess demand for other currently produced commodities.
First, in a situation of widespread unemployment and excess capacity, short-run output is determined primarily by demand, not supply.
Rather than encourage the unions with exaggerated talk of strong European growth and inflationary excess - and disrespect them with threats and interventions - Trichet should speak softly and let nature take its course.
Even more staggeringly, US borrowing now soaks up more than two-thirds of the combined excess savings of all the surplus countries in the world, including China, Japan, Germany, and the OPEC states.
A tax on oil, however, does not entail excess burdens.
One particular worry is that euro-zone money supply is well above the ECB's benchmark level, indicating an excess supply of liquidity.
It is doubtful that the ECB would raise interest rates to curb excess liquidity so long as economic recovery remains in question.
If the main problem had been confined to excess leverage and risk-taking within the financial sector, the economic shock would have been large, but the recovery quicker.
When those bubbles burst, consumers were left with a massive overhang of excess debt and subpar saving.
Ultimately, these financial failures reflect the downward spiral of house prices and the increasing number of homes with negative equity, i.e., with substantial mortgage debt in excess of market values.
As homeowners with large negative equity default, the foreclosed homes contribute to the excess supply that drives prices down further.
In the US, excess domestic consumption, based on a debt-fueled asset bubble, helped to sustain employment and growth, though the current account held worrying signs.
On the contrary, it implies excess benefits.