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Simple sentences
The doctor advised me to quit jogging because it was excessive exercise.
Tom has excessive demands on Mary.
Excessive supply leads to a drop in prices.
The excessive use of salt should be taboo.
Excessive concern with safety can be dangerous.
Excessive smoking will injure your health.
Excessive drinking is one of the causes of impotence.
He drinks excessive amounts of coffee.
Tom complained about the excessive noise.
Please refrain from excessive drinking.
The peasants complained of excessive taxation.
The International Labour Organization defines a workweek exceeding 48 hours as excessive.
The police were accused of having used excessive force when arresting the demonstrators.
Movie subtitles
To me, there's something so unrefined about excessive laughter. Oh!
Perhaps excessive.
There's no sign of any excessive radioactivity anywhere.
Actually, excessive sanity is not a necessary qualification. for that particular institution.
Due to the excessive heat court is adjourned until 10:00 tomorrow morning.
How they treat the men seems lacking in some ways, excessive in others.
Excessive in what way?
She used to play Cinderella, but she took to drugs and excessive alcohol.
This is a bit excessive.
These excessive acts of humility will not compensate for subservience to the crown.
But I don't believe in excessive drinking.
No excessive enthusiasm, nor uncontrolled indignation!
Still excessive feelings, huh?
That seems a bit excessive when all I want is a dinner for one.
We're giving you the chance to cool off some of that excessive heat of yours.
But if his condition at the time is aggravated by excessive concentration. he'll have an urge to destroy anything that stands in his way.
Excessive anger!
See, there's no sign of any excessive radioactivity. anywhere in the area.
Too much! - It's excessive!
For example, if there was an excessive amount of radioactive material in the rain that night.
I saw some experiments with excessive cold once.
Ulysses realized too late he'd lost her love, because of his own excessive carefulness.
I detest you, I despise you, I hate you! Still excessive feelings, huh?
Because it's hard-core pornography softened slightly, ever so slightly, by excessive violence and sadism!
Gentle, fast-acting, eliminates tension, removes excessive inhibitions, and is almost completely without harmful side effects.
He's a crybaby. He thinks he's unfit for this excessive punishment.
A month unfortunately. Professor Topaze. Our talk has convinced me that you have been a victim of excessive mother-love.
Isn't it excessive?
Radiation is not excessive.
Mr. Lee, this is spring- the usual time for college and school riots and general horseplay, ganging up, excessive spirit.
That's excessive!
Has excessive drunkenness ever caused you to lose your job?
But please refrain from excessive violence.
Because of hardcore pornography. softened slightly, ever so slightly, by excessive violence and sadism!
Gentle, fast-acting, eliminates tension, removes excessive inhibitions. and is almost completely without harmful side effects.
Don't you think it's pathetic, excessive, the things happening to us?
The written amount is excessive for that kind of printing quality.
A total of 15 incurably insane out of billions is not what I would call an excessive figure.
Passenger purchased excessive insurance, mentally disturbed and desperate.
News and current affairs
In Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world, the IMF imposes accounting frameworks that not only make little sense, but result in excessive austerity.
That turned out to be wrong, as a painful process of balance-sheet deleveraging - reflecting excessive private-sector debt, and then its carryover to the public sector - implies that the recovery will remain, at best, below-trend for many years to come.
Financial deregulation enriched Wall Street, but ended up creating a global economic crisis through fraud, excessive risk-taking, incompetence, and insider dealing.
As the ECB's common monetary policy cannot fit the macroeconomic conditions of all the member countries, the eurozone countries need macro-prudential regulations that aim at reducing excessive credit growth.
This pact would monitor current-account imbalances and penalize excessive deficits or surpluses in the external account.
If today's constellation of exchange rates represents some excessive dollar and yen appreciation, especially against emerging-market currencies, when it will unwind?
But this obscures the real issue, which is excessive government expenditures.
My greatest worry is not Putin but that Russia will face an excessive inflow of foreign portfolio investment again, as in 1997.
The attraction of this metaphor may be attributable to the excessive trust that Americans place not only in their army, which is understandable, but in force in general, which is much less understandable in the case of an intelligent people.
Larger firms - even those with large debt problems - can refinance their excessive liabilities in court or out of court; but an unprecedented number of small businesses are going bankrupt.
The US economy has been sustained by a consumption boom fueled by excessive borrowing, and that will be curtailed.
But some commodity exporters still seek ways to borrow that won't expose them to excessive risk.
The stereotypical Latin American economies of yesteryear used to get into trouble through populist government spending, while the East Asian economies ran into difficulty because of excessive long-term investment.
Excessive social welfare spending (mainly public pensions) and the cost of servicing the public debt drain resources from more productive government spending and impose a high tax burden.
The tendency is either excessive restraint (Europe) or a diffusion of the effort (the United States).
We Europeans must favor stability, create a real spirit of co-ownership, and promote political responsibility.In this new framework, the EU should avoid excessive conditionality, especially during the transition period.
The qualitative parallels are obvious: banks using off-balance loans to finance highly risky ventures, exotic new financial instruments, and excessive exuberance over the promise of new markets.
Until now, Congress's excessive political polarization has translated into an approach that has pushed more of the burden of adjustment onto those who are less able to bear it.
On the other side is the risk of excessive debt, currency instability, and - where unemployment is structural - doubts about the benefits of additional stimulus.
But even if America's wildly excessive military budget is cut sharply (and politicians in both parties are resisting that), there will still be a need for new taxes.
The most convincing way to do that is to moderate America's excessive taste for power, which it demonstrated in Iraq.
In that two year period, Chavez stepped on the gas for his social reforms - education, health care, etc. - and also in regard to breaking down the country's excessive concentrations of wealth.
In an ideal world, Europe would deal with its excessive debt burdens through a restructuring of Greek, Irish, and Portuguese liabilities, as well as municipal and bank debt in Spain.