Sentence examples for over the excessive from inspiring English sources

Federal and state officials had been negotiating over the excessive rates since 2010, when an investigation by The Poughkeepsie Journal alerted the Obama administration to the overpayments.

The original protests were against local leaders in the semiautonomous area and echoed complaints across the region over the excessive power of long-ruling parties and corruption.

Attorney General Jerry Brown asked a state court Thursday to appoint a monitor to oversee the finances of the city of Bell, which has been embroiled in a scandal over the excessive compensation of some of its former top officials.

"The extraordinary opposition vote reflects investor outrage over the excessive pay awarded to Tim Mason, Tesco's second highest paid executive, despite the dismal performance of the US Fresh and Easy business he oversees," said Michael Garland of American investment group CtW, which had urged investors to vote against the remuneration report.

As for FP6, I do share the criticisms over the excessive bureaucracy.

With increasing concern over the excessive energy consumption and environment pollution, structural bionics is a viable new tool of lightweight design by mechanical engineers.

The real eye-opener was about how focused she was on avoiding the kind of over-the-top, excessive, entourage-in-the-studio environment that I had expected.

One apparent former employee complained last month on the jobs site GlassDoor that the firm features "excessive, over-the-top spending on things that make no sense and don't align with the supposed mission of the firm.

Describing it, she wrote: "One may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun".

The results concerning the trajectories of symptom severity over time showed that the excessive behaviors in this population were not steady: they were episodic rather than continuous in nature.

Last year, public anger in China over graft and the excessive lifestyles of officials prompted President Xi Jinping to ban government extravagance.