Sentence examples for undue from inspiring English sources

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undue

adjective

Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.

  • To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment.

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The minister is causing undue and unnecessary alarm, and yet contradicting himself, when just before Christmas he was content to ship in units of blood to Northern Ireland from other parts of the UK, where there is no longer a ban".

But analysts and politicians in Kiev argue such a move would weaken the country and allow Moscow undue influence in its politics.

This, says the report, is "so that no single individual has undue influence over a number of schools".

Yes, we should hunt down malpractice and lobbying, but it seems to me that the BMJ have found no evidence that my research or that of SACN members has led to any undue influence in SACN decision-making or in my work within the Responsibility Deal.

Coates is referring to the egregious use of undue force by the Baltimore police that forced the city to pay $5.7m to people assaulted by police officers since 2011.

He added that the law on the subject involving the EU Wild Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive – which a review ordered by chancellor George Osborne concluded was not putting undue costs on British businesses – was "unfortunately... complex and opaque".

Hence there was no problem with writing a new constitution in 2011 which was only approved by Fidesz, and there was no issue with changing the electoral rules in such a manner that Fidesz gained an "undue advantage" (according to the OSCE).

Spending time together is important, but it shouldn't feel important, otherwise it creates undue pressure to enjoy yourselves.

These fears first surfaced in July 2011, when the board replaced Rob Kalin, Etsy's 30-year-old co-founder and chief executive, with the more conventionally businesslike Mr Dickerson.Some Etsians take comfort in the fact that Etsy is a B Corp, a new corporate form designed to protect a firm with an explicit social mission from undue demands from shareholders.

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