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One week, the old Greek couple in Dryee-Fast seemed unduly amused by Gove's unusually bulky package.
The goal was to find matches in the human genome faster without unduly sacrificing the quality of the matches.
But the stringent standards that you set for yourself makes you self-critical and self-doubting, unduly insecure — and therefore needy, fast to take the mildest criticism to heart and redouble it, to receive it as a wounding blow and a definitive rejection.
The retired military chiefs called for a "rapid re-evaluation" of the SDSR, which they described as "unduly trusting in an uncertain, fast -moving and dangerous world".
In 1871, a book on Sarah Jacob, this one more than three hundred pages long, was published by a doctor who had examined her during her fast and pronounced her a hysteric "unduly stimulated, as well as disordered, by religious reading".
Never unduly distressed when today's creative chefs play as fast and loose with culinary terminology as they do with traditional ingredients, I have cared more about how a dish tastes than what it is called as long as the name does not lead me astray by arousing wrong expectations.
Scientists' projections that seemed dire a decade ago turn out to have been unduly optimistic: the warming and the melting is occurring much faster than the models predicted.
And he said that offices are in oversupply, the energy and farm sectors are weak, and the depreciation of the dollar is "not an unalloyed joy". The economy has underlying imbalances; debt has grown too fast , and the budget and trade deficits have made the United States unduly dependent on the inflow of foreign capital.
But in overhauling British financial market regulation, Mr. Sants cannot afford to go too far, too fast : Without global agreement, London's status as a financial center would suffer unduly, as banks that felt the F.S.A. was too intrusive in its regulation could move their headquarters to more lenient jurisdictions.
President George Bush has complained that it would unduly damage the US economy, and emission caps should have been imposed on China, India and other fast-growing developing countries.
But even if you thought she was being unduly pessimistic, you would want the rate of lending and investment to grow at least no faster than the economy - because the longer they grow faster than the economy, the greater the danger that eventually the debt burden and the write-offs of lousy investments become unaffordably big.
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The phrase "unduly fast " functions as an intensifying adverbial modifier . "Unduly" modifies the adjective "fast", indicating a degree of speed that is excessive or inappropriate. As Ludwig AI highlights, the phrase suggests a concern or criticism related to the rate at which something is occurring.
Expression frequency: Rare
