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to excesses

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The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.

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It encourages totalitarian regimes to excesses of social engineering.

LIKE many Mediterranean peoples, Tunisians are said to be prone to excesses of joy and despair.

As social animals, people began expecting permanent "connectivity .Gadflies began pointing to excesses.

Florence lends itself to excesses, and Leavitt does not always escape them.

Some object to modernity, some to capitalism, some to excesses of capitalism.

We require the company of a responsible person to make sure that we do not go to excesses".

Sure, sometimes the urge to revolution grew self-destructive and led to excesses of barbiturates, booze, and babies.

Even Stalin confessed to excesses, although he shifted blame to his underlings who were "dizzy with success".

"So much of the revolution that created our legal system was a reaction to excesses of government in areas of press and speech," he said.

Later in the century, composers like Don Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa, subjugated the music entirely to the text, leading to excesses that eventually exhausted the genre.

The collection of soft money, of course, is at the center of the reckless fund-raising system that has led to excesses like the White House sleepovers.

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