Sentence examples for too exacting from inspiring English sources

Nation states and businesses had cried foul, claiming the targets were too exacting.

If that is too exacting a standard for him, then a civil service note ought to be taken of any discussion so that everyone can be satisfied that nothing inappropriate took place.

It's all very well saying that the right to wear an England shirt has to be earned the hard way, or at least the expensive way – there being no such thing as a cheap cap – but it really shouldn't have been too exacting to sit down a little sooner and suggest that Ben Foden might be given a go.

Such a partnership becomes more likely if the demands from the Social Democrats are too exacting.

The intelligence community obviously believes that is too exacting a standard for the acquisition of information over which (according to them, but not the judge in this week's ruling) Americans don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Rousseau was a romantic, given to weeping under the willows on Lake Geneva, and his political works are hypnotically readable, flaming protests by one who found the hard rationality of the 18th century too exacting.

Openness, too, exacts a toll.

Another great Munro theme, sex or romantic longing — its unpredictability and the price it too exacts — is present only implicitly in these last four stories.

But, in fact, starvation only kills quickly in extreme cases; usually, it, too, exacts a toll measured in years and decades.

I don't need anything too exact.

A map that is too exact becomes the thing it maps, endangering both.