Sentence examples for excessive should be from inspiring English sources

Weight gain, if excessive, should be managed with reinforcement of dietary advice and exercise, reduction in pioglitazone dose, or use of pharmacologic agents approved for weight loss.

In combative questioning Cunningham asked whether a company that took "excessive risks" should be "allowed to exist".

Critics are accusing Long Island's Roman Catholic diocese of accumulating $119 million in reserve funds, an amount they say is grossly excessive and should be used for worthy causes.

Abbas Lakha QC, for Adebowale, argued that his client's 45-year prison term was "manifestly excessive" and should be cut.

The Russians indicated that they had ideas but did not believe excessive time should be expended trying to issue a statement as had been done at past PrepComs.

Excessive assessment should be replaced by a greater use of self-assessment, freeing up social workers to facilitate, advocate and navigate.

The two officials included a proposed statement of shared principles, including that "the current antagonism and excessive competition should be replaced with a more collaborative spirit".

With rapidly increasing debt levels in Australia, policies such as negative gearing and capital gains concessions, which encourage leverage and excessive debt, should be curtailed.

Strikes which would have "disproportionate and excessive effects" should be made unlawful, the government said in a consultative paper published in November.

States that accept the grants must recommend whether insurers with patterns of excessive pricing should be allowed to market policies through newly created exchanges, which will help individuals and businesses shop for coverage starting in 2014.

Confronting Democrats who have suggested that the 10-year tax cut of $1.35 trillion he signed into law last year was excessive and should be slowed or rolled back, Mr. Bush formally proposed tonight that it be extended beyond the end of the decade.