Sentence examples for may become overly from inspiring English sources

Due to clumping of the upcrossings the evaluation may become overly conservative.

When people are trained at detecting deception they may become overly skeptical and report deception too often, still scoring at chance levels.

Students may feel resentment if a group member does not adequately contribute to a particular assignment, or, a student within a group may become overly dominant and prevent others from contributing to decision-making processes.

He admits that there are potential concerns: the family may become overly dependent on him, while some may query whether it is right for a Westerner to have such an influence on the lives of a poor Indian family.

Reached at the Greek Independence Day parade, Mr. Catsimatidis retorted that he was obeying the law, and said that Mr. Lhota's ideas ignored another danger: that candidates who rely on donations from individuals, as Mr. Lhota does, may become overly indebted to so-called bundlers of many large contributions and feel obliged to repay them with "anything they want from the city taxpayers".

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas — whose previous books include "The Hidden Life of Dogs" and "Tribe of Tiger," a hidden-lives of cats — lives in New Hampshire, where officials ask the population to refrain from feeding the deer, for various reasons: the deer may become overly dependent on the humans, and the humans will become overly possessive of the deer, to name just two.

He worries that speculators may have become overly complacent.

American Indians such as Coleman who are critical of the crusade against school names, he suggests, may have become overly assimilated.

This may cause us to become overly sensitive to criticism or comparison, and we may take any perceived rejection as confirmation of our failings.

These brain changes may help explain how people can become overly focused on a perceived defect of their face, hair, skin or facial or body shape that others may not notice — indeed, that may not even exist.

For some, it's another word for liberal, used by politicians who may feel the word "liberal" has become overly politicized.