Sentence examples for In overreaction, from inspiring English sources

In "Overreaction to Pitch Sets an Angry Tone" (Oct . 10, about Mike Crudale's pitch to Kenny Lofton, Chass bases his case on his opinion that "the pitch was neither menacing nor threatening to Lofton's well-being".

There's no bonus in overreaction as the cot rattles.

Unless, of course, we do ourselves in in overreaction, which is exactly what seems to have been at work the past dozen years.

The purported American victory against fundamentalism has been a Pyrrhic one not only because of its financial, moral and diplomatic cost, but in its overreaction, in the waste of energy that could have been used far better in Afghanistan than in Iraq.

This, in turn, has resulted in an overreaction and now everyone is saying that multivitamins are a waste of time.

The gearshift is imprecise, and the steering is neurotic in its overreaction.

The Paras are convincingly shown indulging in insane overreaction, though among the officers, Chris Villiers as Major Steele looked the most like a genuine non-thespian professional soldier.

He argues that the statistically lower achievements of some female and minority math students have resulted in an overreaction that doesn't serve their interests.

The next Secretary of Homeland Security will need to be much tougher than Tom Ridge — capable of energizing the department, beating back its rivals, standing up to powerful industries, winning larger budgets, and, perhaps most important, making certain that our ideals won't be sacrificed in the overreaction that terrorism, by definition, seeks.

"I fear this young man has gotten caught up in an overreaction to [last year's] anthrax attacks," says Ronald Atlas, a bioterrorism expert at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and president of the American Society for Microbiology.

"So I think it will result in an overreaction".