Sentence examples for was too precipitous from inspiring English sources
"Perhaps I was too precipitous," he said.
It was left to Hollande's erstwhile partner, Ségolène Royal, to say that it was "too precipitous" to say anything about his return to the race for President.
Viktor Sadovnichy, the rector of Moscow State, told Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a Moscow newspaper, that the university had suffered in the rankings because the quality of research at universities was weighted over teaching, but that such a year-on-year drop was too precipitous.
Massachusetts, which is frequently heralded as a leader among the states in education, decided last month to delay a decision about a Common Core assessment until fall 2015, saying that requiring schools to test students on the Common Core that spring, as previously planned, would have been "too precipitous a transition".
Also, the stimulus — which, to begin with, was too small to completely offset the economy's precipitous drop in demand — was oversold.
Russia also offers no help on China's dilemma over North Korea, where Pyongyang flouts Beijing's directives with impunity on the presumption that China is too fearful of precipitous unification under South Korean-American auspices to do anything about it.
QUESTION FROM ASHER: What do you make of Petreaus and Mullins public rejection of Obama's allegedly too precipitous withdrawl?
"The pessimists were too influenced by credit markets freezing, by bank balance sheets and by the precipitous fall in home prices," he maintains.
Orbán felt he wasn't dynamic enough in his first term in office in 1998, and his desire to smash the remnants of the communist system is now perhaps too precipitous.
But with most American and NATO troops set to leave by the end of 2014, advocates of continued aid are warning against too precipitous a cutoff of financing from the United States and its allies.
With foreign aid also facing budget-cutting pressure in Congress and much of Washington out of patience with the Karzai government's record on corruption, defenders of the development effort are warning against too precipitous a cutoff of funding from the United States and its allies.
