Sentence examples similar to less over optimistic from inspiring English sources

Unconstrained by concerns about political and social fallout in Italy, GM would not hesitate to impose a painful cure, as it has done at struggling Opel, where it is cutting up to 12,000 jobs.Mr Marchionne has made few changes to his predecessor's recovery plan other than making its timetable for recovery a bit less over-optimistic.

In deciding how long they will require to accrue participants, trialists are often over optimistic - in 2007 Campbell found that less than one third of publically funded trials managed to recruit according to their original plan [ 1].

They got a little over optimistic.

Slopes of less than one imply over-optimistic predictions where low predictions are too low and high predictions are too high [ 34].

Meanwhile, media outlets in Hong Kong are less optimistic over the state of democracy and political freedom.

Well, drying them was a little over-optimistic – making them a bit less wet is more like it.

This value was less than the planned 23% difference, which in retrospect looks over-optimistic especially considering the analysis at only 12 months in this population.

The City is less optimistic, predicting 2.5 per cent growth over Christmas, and less than 2 per cent growth over 2011.

Some thought the space should have been given over to coverage of something rather less fundamentally optimistic - the recession.

This seems over-optimistic.

This may be over-optimistic.