Sentence examples for constitutes excessive from inspiring English sources

("The ACLU believes that the use of pepper spray as a kind of chemical cattle prod on nonviolent demonstrators resisting arrest constitutes excessive force and violates the Constitution," wrote an ACLU lawyer).

The key question in today's market, of course, is what constitutes excessive valuation.

Let's just say that the Camry and I have differing ideas about what constitutes excessive acceleration.

What constitutes excessive amounts of homework varies by age, and may also be affected by cultural or family expectations.

While the U.S. Constitution is silent on what precisely constitutes "excessive," the general rule has been to allow fines that do not violate due process by resulting in a loss of property.

For example, governments and human rights organization should re-evaluate what exactly constitutes "excessive" civilian casualties or "all feasible precautions" and determine whether some limits might shrink the gray area between "unfortunate" and "unlawful".

Eikenberry declined to specify precisely what constituted "excessive" use.

The article was thin on details like what would constitute "excessive" and who would make that determination.

Speaking in comments broadcast on Iranian state television, Ayatollah Khamenei said demands that Iran halt the research and development portion of its nuclear programme constituted "excessive coercion".

The card he was handed read, in part, "You are being issued a warning that the comments, gestures and/or behaviors that you have directed at players, coaches, game officials and/or other spectators constitute excessive verbal abuse".

Piergiorgio Welby, the 60-year-old muscular dystrophy patient at the center of a national debate on euthanasia, suffered a setback in his bid to be allowed to remove himself from his respirator when the Higher Health Council said that the respirator keeping him alive "does not constitute excessive care".