Sentence examples for excessive reaction from inspiring English sources

When someone deviates from this, it can explain the seemingly excessive reaction it provokes.

Psychotherapeutic techniques can involve asking patients to revisit their traumatic event in a safe environment, in order to try and eliminate the excessive reaction to the memories.

TO MUCH of the world, Israel's actions in Lebanon are regarded as an excessive reaction to Hizbullah's provocation, the kidnapping of two soldiers.

So there is the danger that an excessive reaction to the flu (such as restricting international travel) could cause severe economic damage.On the other hand, it is generally agreed that travel restrictions did help prevent the SARS virus from spreading.

Until he started work in February, the military pattern in Syria had been consistent for several months – occasional forays by rebels into urban areas followed by excessive reaction by government troops, with artillery, snipers, and mass arrests.

But Pip's insistence that users hate change and only want incremental improvements to existing technologies seems an excessive reaction to the recent past: sometimes new technologies really are, in Apple CEO Steve Jobs's famous phrase, "insanely great". To use Coburn's own language, people who saw the first Macintosh computer or Web browser experienced crises of covetousness.

"The soccer system lives in excess and when everything is excessive, reactions become that way too," he said.

A spectacle that could lead to excessive reactions among the public — for example viewing all blacks as anti-Semites".

According to Tuesday's draft plan, the circuit-breaker mechanism would help prevent "excessive reactions of investors".

"It's always excessive reactions," added Wenger, who was appointed Arsenal boss in October 1996 and is now the manager with the longest service in the top flight following Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement.

The spokesman, the Rev. Ciro Benedettini, told reporters that the archbishop would return to Rome to consult with Vatican officials who are preparing the Holy See's official response to the Irish government on the report, but added that the decision "does not exclude some degree of surprise and disappointment at certain excessive reactions".