Sentence examples for of overreaction to from inspiring English sources

For legal reasons, schools say, they have no choice but to err on the side of overreaction to threats.

"There has been quite a bit of overreaction to the recent moves in oil prices," he said.

The possibility of overreaction to perceived threats is by now a familiar problem in the age of terrorism, when a little powdered sugar can set off an anthrax panic or a Coast Guard training exercise can persuade cable television crews that the nation's capital may be under attack, as occurred last Sept. 11.

All of these episodes are either imaginary or, if conceded as real, an instance of overreaction to the needless fears those mustache-twirling opponents have "fomented".

Asked to characterize the fallout from today's ruling, he said: "I would say that a small number of people with large holdings of Microsoft stock suffered a large one-day paper loss because of an overreaction to the end of an unrealistic expectation of an early resolution.

If the theory of pilot overreaction to the activation of a safety system survives the weeks of analysis ahead, it will raise questions about training and airplane design, but relegate ice to a minor role.

Many entrepreneurs say that bank loan officers are denying loans to creditworthy borrowers as part of an overreaction to the bad loans of the last economic expansion and heightened scrutiny by regulators.

Depriving people of their rights does seem to be something of an overreaction to one or two adverse rulings from the human rights court.

However, free speech advocates have warned against the dangers of an overreaction to a worldwide phenomenon that has grown alongside the expansion of the Internet.

It is almost certainly part of an overreaction to all things Mullins.

But privacy experts say they worry about the dangers of government overreaction to such episodes.