Sentence examples for case of excessive from inspiring English sources

" The shooting, the family and its lawyers said, was a clear case of excessive force.

I said at the time, without benefit of all the facts before me, that it looked like a possible case of excessive force.

This isn't just a case of excessive risk-taking by investment bankers – it is about the corrupt manipulation of what should have been a trustworthy and independent interest rate.

A powerful religious lodge, the bambudye, acted as an effective check on the behaviour of the king and even had the power to execute him in case of excessive abuse of power.

A clear case of excessive punishment.

This was not a case of excessive speed or failure to stop".

Nearly six in 10 think officers are not punished harshly enough in cases of excessive force.

Some cases of excessive fears may have their origins in unpleasant experiences during early life.

"But rioting will do nothing for the cause of changing the judicial view of these cases of excessive force.

The coma was caused by swelling, not (as it invariably is in cases of excessive punishment) by haemorrhage.

Even as late as the turn of the last century, it was held that in certain cases of excessive drinking the imbiber could undergo spontaneous combustion.