The phrase "committed excesses" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to have gone beyond the bounds of what is considered acceptable or reasonable behavior. Example: The dictator's regime was known for its human rights abuses and its tendency to commit excesses in its pursuit of power.
Indian security forces have committed excesses in Kashmir, but the Indian government has made persistent efforts to maintain their discipline while conducting an extraordinarily difficult anti-terrorist operation.
As his Daily Telegraph obituarist pointed out, he "was forthright in his condemnation both of journalists who committed excesses and of proprietors who profited from them".
He also said he believed most human rights abuses were not official policies, but rather that there had been people who abused their authority and committed excesses.
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The victims were blamed for bringing it on themselves; the "uncontrolled" soldiers had been lured into committing excesses by the opposition.
Occasionally these artists committed remarkable excesses that took the style beyond the decorous territory it occupied elsewhere.
"The industry is just committed to excess.
"It probably asks too much of human nature to expect any of us to be restrained at all times by persistent modesty and empathy from committing rhetorical excesses that exaggerate our differences and ignore our similarities.
But the MHP's paramilitary wing, known as the "Grey Wolves", committed the worst excesses.
The judge ordered the house arrest a week after General Pinochet had released a partial and diffident admission of responsibility for excesses committed in his government.
Brent Renison, an attorney in Portland, Ore., and an immigration law specialist who worked with McEwan, points to some of the excesses committed by immigration officials.
