Sentence examples for example of overkill from inspiring English sources

An example of overkill, "Newsroom" style: Don and Jim, two indistinguishable producers who work for different ACN news shows, have a little flap in which Jim, who just finished overseeing Will's expose on conservative power brokers David and Charles Koch, congratulates Don on his show's report on the McRib sandwich.

"But there are plenty of examples of overkill in nature.

According to Brothwell, Lindow Man is one of the most complex examples of "overkill" in a bog body, and possibly has ritual meaning as it was "extravagant" for a straightforward murder.

Obama administration officials called the international effort, accomplished with no Western casualties, a "model intervention". "If Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of overkill and overreach, Libya is the reverse case, where you do too little and get an unacceptable result," said Brian Katulis, a Middle East specialist at the Center for American Progress, a think tank.

In his case, that would be not just another example of prosecutorial overkill, but just possibly a missed opportunity.

They don't know, or don't care, that Coppola's sequence is meant sardonically, as an example of pointless overkill; they want to be terrifying, too.

Mike Downey's frantic screed against the USFL is a classic example of journalistic overkill.

It was all a case of overkill.

Robinson's attorney, Robert Ritchie, said the indictment was a case of overkill by the prosecutors.

By the end of the day, 32 people had been arrested in a fully-formed example of extreme police overkill.

But to critics, memory aids could well be an example of innovation driving need, an overkill of sensors and sophistication to do the work of Post-its.