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Manchester United have reacted furiously to a Football Association regulatory commission's decision to ban Patrice Evra for four games and fine the full-back £15,000, sanctions the club immediately denounced as "excessive", for his part in the ugly post-match altercation with a Chelsea groundsman following the side's Premier League defeat at Stamford Bridge in April.

Changes in treatment which were previously considered as excessive, for example radiotherapy after mastectomy, may now be considered as appropriate and are therefore not reported.

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Institutional investors are alarmed by what they characterize as excessive rewards for bank employees.

But Britain is in the midst of what has been called a shareholder spring, with investors raising alarms about what they see as excessive compensation for top executives at a range of companies, including the financial services giants Aviva and Barclays and the media companies Trinity Mirror and WPP.

Many of the Australian sailors were chafing under the severity of naval discipline and what they saw as excessive punishment for minor breaches; one example was of a sailor who was charged with desertion, imprisoned for three months, and lost all pay for staying out too late on Armistice Day.

Both were denounced as "excessive and unaffordable for taxpayers".

He cites the four main areas of concern as excessive workload, planning for retirement, behaviour and bullying.

David Bickford, a former legal adviser to the security services, has publicly criticised their costs as excessive, and called for a merging of their operations.

The Chinese government has criticized NATO's air campaign in Libya as excessive and called for a cease-fire, although China abstained instead of exercising its veto when the United Nations Security Council voted in March to authorize the NATO action.

Shareholders -- including pension funds and other large institutional investors, as well as individuals -- balk at what they see as excessive pay packages for senior executives at a time when households across Europe are tightening their belts in a climate of slow or contracting national economies, government spending cuts and tax increases.

When these companies entered the world market they encountered several difficulties such as excessive flow times for development of new products.

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