Sentence examples for public overreaction from inspiring English sources

He has teased them about the public overreaction to James and Bosh teaming with Wade, as if basketball had never before had such assemblages of talent.

Mr. Buffenstein said he was also worried that public overreaction would result in measures like the Mica bill, which he contended would go too far in restricting international companies from using L-1 visa holders to do on-site client work.

Attempts to calm public overreaction should not ignore the human epidemiologic data.

Radford is "more concerned about the public's overreaction" than the clowns themselves.

"We question the wisdom of having this decision made now, and we think this is just an overreaction to public pressure," said Neal Rosenstein, government reform coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

A10 Vatican Faults U.S. Policy The Vatican issued a report on child sexual abuse that found fault with and challenged the American bishops' zero-tolerance policy and cast that policy as an overreaction to public outcry.

But the vote brought sharp criticism from both federal prosecutors, who said the plan was too soft on some types of crime, and defense lawyers, who deemed it an overreaction to public pressure.

Some health officials acknowledged that an announcement of the contamination had been delayed in New Jersey for several days, in part over concerns for possible overreaction by the public.

IN 2007 many residents of Brattleboro saw the town's temporary ban on public nudity as a gross overreaction to the antics of a few teenagers.

The 219-page report, titled "Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: Scientific and Legal Perspectives," casts that policy as an overreaction to the public outcry over the issue by Catholic Church leaders in the United States and as potentially counterproductive in trying to keep children safe from sexual abuse.

While several of the leading brokerages including Charles Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard have already stated that they do not hold any Lehman Brothers notes or paper, we're concerned about a spreading credit crisis and a possible overreaction by the public.