Sentence examples for proved excessive from inspiring English sources

While union leaders' optimism has proved excessive in the past, they say their optimism is justified this time.

The cost proved excessive, and he installed a stationery steam engine and narrow gauge railway tracks, on which small wagons were pushed by hand, to aid the work.

Asked whether all the security preparations might prove excessive, he said: "I'd rather be prepared and have nothing happen.

Bill Cline, chief economist at the IIF, reckons that a messy debt-restructuring in Argentina could jeopardise the entire asset class of emerging-market bonds.Such pessimism may prove excessive.

What can happen is that some of these decisions could prove excessive, end up killing future possibilities, scaring away people who might never come back again or just cancel".

It is widely suspected, but not proved, that excessive H.G.H. may promote cancers.

DNA was extracted from five King Island Emu sub-fossil bones (Museum Victoria numbers B226 450 55, 55 and 57, KI01-04 in this study respectively, B226 43 was excluded from further analysis after molecular damage proved too excessive) together with a mock extraction in a dedicated ancient DNA facility at Griffith University, Nathan, Australia.

CONCLUSIONS The MCQ and prediction equations proved inaccurate (excessive underestimation) in type 2 diabetic patients with hyperfiltration or normal renal function.

The judge, Ernest C. Torres, ruled that Mr. Jennings could not prove that excessive force was used.

Three members of Congress, armed with a new report that they say proves that excessive oil speculation is distorting consumer energy prices, are renewing their efforts to exclude many institutional investors from the nation's commodity markets.

Willow Smith started the trend in 2010 with the pre-pubescent ode to the dutty wine, Whip My Hair, proving that excessive brattiness could be turned to her advantage.