Sentence examples for excessively by from inspiring English sources

Shortly before he celebrated his wife's pregnancy — excessively by N.F.L. standards — the longtime Giants running back Tiki Barber had revealed his plans to retire.

She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and then, midway through her life, they divorced, and she was forced to earn her own living.

Now she is the person proposing one of the most serious attacks ever on a fundamental civil liberty, the right not to be held excessively by the state without knowing your fate.

The primary disadvantages of the old system were that it allowed expenditures to be driven excessively by the burden of past commitments and to be blown off course by rises in the cost of public sector inputs.

They have two children, one of whom, Joey, is doted on excessively by Patty; he turns into a cool, repellently selfish Republican later on, but in this opening section he is a precocious smart-ass who drives his parents nearly crazy with his inappropriate maturity and heartbreaking independence.

However, in anaerobic soils and at low redox potential (Eh), Fe is reduced to its soluble form Fe2+ and can be taken up excessively by plants.

We write dress code policies because we'd die of embarrassment having to talk to an employee face-to-face about his or her excessively club-by or beach-y attire," she wrote.

But Mr. Gore, who has been criticized by Republicans for being excessively guided by polling data, issued orders that no steps were to be taken to gauge public reaction to Mr. Lieberman's religion.

He says: "A society that is casual in its enthusiasm for rights and is excessively animated by egalitarian ideals ultimately risks being engulfed by absurdities".

"They were excessively mobbed" by fans and photographers.

Such a gesture was deemed excessively dramatic by the Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota.