Sentence examples for overreacted with from inspiring English sources

She was a single parent with a hefty divorce settlement and so befuddled by her two children that she frequently overreacted with almost-comical extremes of punishment.

"In '68, the authorities overreacted with brute force," he said.

Still a long ways to go and the judges overreacted with their praise.

Eventually, Tracy realizes that he overreacted with his sons but warns his son, Tracy Jr. (Bobb'e J. Thompson), that if he were to die, that he and his brother will face jail time.

In 1990 and 1991 the Greenspan Fed overreacted with a slower money supply growth throwing the economy into a recession in 1990 and 1991, undermining President George H.W. Bush's (1989 -1993) reelection bid.

Neither side wants war for a moment, but either could miscalculate or overreact, with terrible consequences.

Mr. Geithner, for example, takes seriously the idea that the events of 2007-8 were largely a liquidity crisis to which the United States should not overreact with structural change.

They must not let a third-rate comedian turn them into fourth-rate politicians by overreacting with similar phrases once used by P. W. Botha's regime".

"Does the right honourable member share my view that her majesty is showing an unerring understanding of national mood, or does this government think that she is overreacting?" with a nod and almost a wink.

For the moment, however, the test for Mr. Kostunica has been Kosovo, where Albanian militants in the Presevo Valley of Serbia have been trying to provoke him into overreacting with military force, as Mr. Milosevic did so often, undermining Belgrade's newly friendly relations with the West.

"When they encounter that, they overreact with fatal violence," she said.