Sentence examples for rather overdue from inspiring English sources

Absolutely, the companies say, and analysts and consumer surveys suggest that both companies have made substantial, if rather overdue, strides in the last three years in improving vehicle reliability.

Book publishers, well aware that there's a brave new world of digital content just around the corner and keen to exploit their backlists, as well as any future titles, across as many platforms and devices as possible, are in the midst of the rather overdue process of securing digital rights from their authors.

It is, rather, woefully overdue attention to the core issues of reckless greed and arrogance that did so much to get us into the current fix.

The rent is overpaid rather than being overdue and the healthcare system actually turns out to owe our couple money.

The next year, Republicans on the state's budget committee quietly slipped a measure into the budget through a last-minute Motion 999 to allow payday lenders to declare a loan in default a mere 10 days after a payment was overdue, rather than the 40 days as previously reported the Capitol Times' Jack Craver.

(The scene in which Georgia takes off all her clothes to illustrate the difference between nakedness and the vulnerability of intimacy seems thuddingly gratuitous.) In the end Lesnewski comes to the same sad end as the man who inspired the playwright to create him, but it feels inevitable rather than tragic and overdue rather than much too soon.

But the schools' fiscal agony took a precipitous turn last year when statehouse Republicans decided that an encouraging postrecession increase in revenues was the perfect moment for a huge tax cut, rather than for the overdue restoration of school aid to levels mandated under the State Constitution.

Dvorak argues that wearing the pink hats, which she regards as "she-powered frippery," will reduce the Women's March to being remembered as, "an unruly river of Pepto-Bismol roiling through the streets of the capital rather than a long overdue civil rights march".

The government promised a "hands-off" approach to Resona, suggesting the usual temporary fix rather than a long-overdue radical attack on the banking sector's huge bad-loan problem.See article: The troubling rescue of Japan's fifth-biggest bankWestLB reported a pre-tax annual loss of euro1.7 billion ($1.6 billion).

I still suspect a crack is overdue, but 2006, rather than 2005, now seems the most likely date.

He's got six in tournament football, so he could conceivably go past my total and that would suggest England are doing rather well, which is long overdue".