Sentence examples for given to excessive from inspiring English sources

He said she was given to excessive drinking, depression and was unpopular.

McClellan was also given to excessive planning, as if only the ideal battle plan were worth acting on.

Here, she is still rather immature and not quite up to the more dramatic moments, being particularly given to excessive eye-widening.

"Degraded equipment like leaking pumps, pipes, and settling ponds have given to excessive spillages and water overflowing into the Mushishima stream and subsequently the Kafue river.

"Ah, it is too good, too good," wheezed our affable and asthmatic chairman, Hans Furth, too much given to excessive laughter for his own aerobic good.

Thus it allows the bureau to track health care use virtually in real time and also to monitor the behavior of patients given to excessive doctor shopping.

Draghi kept up pressure on euro zone governments to reduce deficits and debt, saying more time should be given to correct excessive deficits only in exceptional circumstances.

But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive".

Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini has made the shock announcement that he feels the four-month ban from all forms of football given to Luis Suarez is "excessive" after the Uruguayan was found guilty of biting the centre-back.

Meanwhile Chiellini says the four-month ban given to Suarez is excessive.

Chiellini says the four-month ban given to Suarez is excessive.