Sentence examples for viewed as overdue from inspiring English sources

Mr. Barnes, the author of "Flaubert's Parrot" and "Love, etc.," was easily the best-known name of the shortlisted authors, especially in Britain, and was widely viewed as overdue for winning the Booker.

But the new devices offer longer-lasting alternatives to a daily pill and are viewed as long overdue in light of an estimated three million unplanned pregnancies in the United States each year, about half of them ending in abortion.

Mr. Loeb's suggestion was viewed as a long-overdue call to unlink two disparate businesses — electronics and entertainment — and to cut studio spending.

The big question is how to accomplish a reduction that Mr. Obama views as long overdue, considering that Republicans in the Senate opposed even the modest cuts in the new arms reduction treaty, called Start.

This is part of a long overdue inquiry into the American model, which many around the world — not just Western nations — have until now viewed as the apex of political and economic development.

Booker is viewed as undecided.

Applicants are viewed as commodities.

Civil liberties groups and other critics quickly hailed the recommendations as overdue to end what they view as dragnet collection of personal data on virtually every American and improper use of technology companies to monitor private communications.

Recent improvements include a new boardwalk connecting the business district and the waterfront — long overdue, in some residents' view, as the last one was destroyed in the hurricane of 1938.

"The Fed is still the cornerstone," said Norbert Walter, chief economist of Deutsche Bank, who views the rate increase expected Wednesday as overdue.

National groups including the Club for Growth, the National Rifle Association and FreedomWorks, which helped build the Tea Party movement, had viewed Mr. Lugar as a ripe and overdue target, and they poured millions of dollars into the state.