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Previous documents appeared to overshoot this target completely.

Replacing a system that has the familiarity of decades is no simple task, and this huge screen might be overshooting the mark.

But against this is her speeding brain, polymorphous, doodling around, sometimes overshooting the mark.

With some difficulty, I could observe my mind overshooting the mark, zooming past accuracy toward the sublime or the tragic.

As a biological anthropologist, evolutionary theorist and researcher of human behavior, I'm here to tell you Pinker is overshooting the mark.

It is Mr Christie who needs to explain to the survivors of 9/11 why he insists on overshooting the mark of justice, churning the mass grave of the honoured dead, and suggesting that those who have suffered and lost, because they have suffered and lost, can be counted on to abet the theft of their own rights.That's what I think.

Assuming you have a standard cup with more or less straight sides, overshooting the mark by 1/8 inch, say, leads to a small error when measuring a cup (maybe around 5%), but that gets magnified to about 20% when overshooting your 1/4 cup attempt.

To keep from overshooting that mark, McGlade said during a press conference, the world would have to give up 223 billion barrels of oil and 290 billion metric tons of coal by 2050.

By 1954, Japanese people realized that having absolutely no military — even for defense — might be overshooting the mark and decided that it was OK to work within the UN's inherent right of self-defense clause — and actually defend your country.

Overtreatment leads to unnecessary procedures and overshooting the mark.

These events may produce long-term and permanent effects on how voters see the candidates, but they often overshoot the mark in the close term.

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