Sentence examples for was overly eager from inspiring English sources

"I think the former city manager was overly eager and should've taken a much more careful and deliberate look at the land-use rules," Gabel-Luddy said.

Mr. Mooney worries that the center is overly eager to work with big biotechnology companies like Monsanto and Novartis.

This is good, except that a host may be overly eager to impute abstemiousness to his female companions, perhaps to his own advantage.

Mr. Phillips confirmed that Ms. Rice had been interviewed, but disputed any notion that she had been overly eager in seeking attention for her work.

There is a sense, Ms. Nevares-Muñiz said, that the governor further politicized the Police Department — already an established tradition — and installed people who were overly eager to please.

From a more technical standpoint, my research suggests that one should not be overly eager to chase down the latest trend at this stage of the campaign.

Because of the implied guarantee — and the belief that it meant they would never have to pay out on the swaps — sellers of credit insurance may have been overly eager to write contracts on Fannie's and Freddie's debt.

Mr. Bradley favors broad strokes and may at times be overly eager to connect historical dots, but he also produces graphic, shocking evidence of the attitudes that his book describes.

"CityTime is an example of how an allegiance to the notion that outside people are always better can be faulty," said Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, who added that the Bloomberg administration had been overly eager to outsource projects to high-priced contractors rather than handle them in house.

Whether or not military action was contemplated, the administration's strong words were also spreading alarm in the Middle East and among Europeans, who fear that the United States, in its headiness over victory in Iraq, may now be overly eager to swagger in the region.

These issues -- and others, like a possible American invasion of Iraq -- could upset the delicate balance built into Russia's relations with the West, and could, some argue, even lead to Mr. Putin's eventual eclipse -- just as Mr. Gorbachev is thought to have dug his own political grave by being overly eager in his accommodation of the West.