Sentence examples for case of overreaction from inspiring English sources

Gary Barnett, president of the Extell Development Company, characterizes new zoning laws prompted by community outrage over his Ariel projects as a "classic case of overreaction". This is ironic.

Brandon concludes: "If the swine flu episode was a case of overreaction in the face of infectious disease, HIV/AIDS has been a sorry record of ideological paralysis and federal unwillingness to act effectively".

Yale University's short-lived decision, in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, to ban realistic-looking but fake weapons from student plays was a classic case of overreaction.

On a TV panel at the time, I remarked that I had rarely seen such a bad case of media overreaction as that which followed Black Monday.

This incident is not an isolated case of misguided overreaction.

This was a classic case of media overreaction when the Republicans whined to the refs. Yes, you can have legitimate journalistic concerns over whether they should have run the one document they did not have enough verification on.

This type of overreaction on the part of the healthcare system and the general public had also been observed during the 2003 SARS outbreak where many non-SARS patients were hospitalized unnecessarily as suspected SARS cases.

But in most cases of egregious police overreaction, especially Swat raids in which innocent people are killed, cops aren't going after dangerous hostage-takers, but looking for drugs or serving warrants for other, non-violent crimes.

"There's been a lot of overreaction on this matter coming out of the Wen Ho Lee case, and the D.O.E. has had to do a lot of back pedaling on their initial shooting from the hip on these matters".

We've seen this kind of overreaction in other fields.

Catastrophising Be very wary of overreaction.