How To Use Overzealous In A Sentence
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overzealousness" in allowing the flow of water runoffs from developments to the east onto the golf course fairways.
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It's brilliant to see people reacting with this gentle, exasperated humour rather than resorting to hateful tirades and overzealous flag flying.
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But don't be overzealous - it is too early for effective use of lawn weedkillers unless there is a good warm spell.
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Now, it may turn out that this is not a case of overzealous prosecution.
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Part of it, too, is frankly to reign in overzealous creativity.
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Nor is it a charge made possible by the Patriot Act, a simple overzealous attempt to keep America safe.
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Parents cheered as their boys chased down fly balls and hurled them home, where overzealous runners were tagged out.
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Babies have died as a result of overzealous dunking.
Times, Sunday Times
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The phrase ‘close to city centre’ is an elastic term which is being stretched to its limits by some overzealous selling agents.
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I would like to read one book about modern birds...*just one*...where conservation is not a looming, overzealous theme.
Life's Time Capsule: Making of Karoo Sunset
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With 19 convicted pirates languishing in Kenyan prisons and another 99 still to be convicted, the AG said the penal institutions are taking an extra toll with no compensation for Kenya's "overzealousness" to fulfill its international obligations.
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Fourthly, Another "postulatum" is, that men would not use an overzealous speed, upon every small difference, to characterize men
The Sermons of John Owen
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Ravel's exclusive publishing arrangement notwithstanding, it's not uncommon for musical works to be published over time by different publishers and subsequently freighted with the conflicting, sometimes overzealous or heavy-handed input of seriatim editors reflecting shifting interpretative mores.
Four Lost Measures Found
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The trouble is that often the penalties are being exacted from the wrong people by overzealous officials.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think a lot of people have gotten overzealous and overoptimistic that Europe is going to solve the debt crisis this weekend…All the buying you've seen lately in oil, equities, and other risk assets has been premature.
Crude Prices Fall in Late-Day Selloff
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On the other hand, the anti-spyware could just be overzealous.
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That might result in a wholly different problem, of course, as overzealous regulators tried to make their bonuses by going after small-potatoes corporate peccadilloes, rather than spotting potentially systemic crises.
FCIC report: What if the SEC paid like Goldman Sachs?
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If you're a red-faced hockey dad in Massachusetts, a high-strung cheerleading mom in Texas or some other species of overzealous sports parent, be warned.
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It is not the overzealous, fault-finding traffic officers who ambush motorists at every street corner.
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But leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, many of whose followers lived at the ranch, accused the state agency of conducting an overzealous raid simply because the group believes in polygamous marriages.
Child welfare officials say child abuse, neglect common at Texas polygamists’ ranch
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Moisturizers also fill in and fortify gaps between skin cells caused by overzealous washing or hot showers.
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In this drama, the overzealous junior exec in the big corporation is named Jim Profit.
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At a few other places, overzealous cops were ready with their machinery without realising the changed timings.
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Many fear how this law [on apostasy and deviations], if passed and implemented, might be interpreted and applied by overzealous officials.
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If it were not for overzealous councillors, the country would not be worried about the eyesores that pass for townships.
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The Academy has been fighting controversies over the past two years, including allegations that evangelical Christians on campus have been overzealous in proselytizing other students.
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On the front page was the usual stuff about overzealous traffic wardens giving tickets to school run mums.
Times, Sunday Times
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KURTZ: Although much has been reported and written about Wen Ho Lee during these past 19 months, "The New York Times" has come under heavy fire for its initial round of coverage, which many have called overzealous and inaccurate.
CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Is the Press Tilting Toward Al Gore?; Did the Media go Overboard on Wen Ho Lee? - September 23, 2000
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Shoppers are driven away by overzealous parking attendants, ever increasing charges for parking, no improvement in shopping facilities.
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The bank is far from the only big company to have admitted overzealous surveillance.
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The growth of data mining has led many to worry about invasions of privacy by overzealous marketers.
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Too often, the descriptions are imprecise, perhaps because of Johnson's overzealous desire to unleash sequence after sequence of arresting images, even if it means lulling us into uncertainty.
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Overzealous enforcement can also result in bad press—as with the orange plastic Lederhosen given out by Bavaria, a Dutch brewery, to Dutch fans before a match at the 2006 football World Cup.
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Flying is already a pain, thanks to overzealous and intrusive security checks often devoid of common sense.
The Sun
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Overzealous enforcement can also result in bad press—as with the orange plastic Lederhosen given out by Bavaria, a Dutch brewery, to Dutch fans before a match at the 2006 football World Cup.
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Though the meat was fabric-thin and tender, orange peel dominated the sauce like an overzealous church matron, fustily perfumed and bitter.
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Asri Zainul Abidin has cultivated strong support among young people in the Muslim-majority country for criticizing what he called overzealous efforts by Islamic officials to clamp down on immoral behavior.
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It's a sign of the changing attitude of the players that this season they have been far more disciplined in dispatching opponents, even in the face of overzealous aggression.
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These are the same kind of expository lectures as might be given in a history or sociology class by an overzealous teaching assistant, speaking on the assumption that his students are mostly brain-dead and need to be spoon-fed or they will starve.
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The whirr of the compressor was the only sound heard other than a brief toot on the horn to warn an errant pedestrian or overzealous cabbie, trying not to put a dent in GM's million-dollar baby.
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I get a little overzealous sometimes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most you could accuse them of is overzealousness.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there's poor lawyering, overzealous prosecutors, tunnel vision for investigators.
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Jewell was annoyed that press descriptions of him always emphasized his "overzealousness"; he considers himself a man of details.
American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell
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One overzealous man even tried to sell him some overripe tomatoes once, and it took only one glare to send the man scurrying on his way.
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Are you driven into a frustrated frenzy because of the overzealous comb-over dad who just cut into the line you've been waiting in for half an hour?
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But Penry, the minority leader in the State Senate, said was troubled by what called overzealousness in the civil-unions debate on the part of some advocates and opponents.
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Was it the first bright idea of some overzealous publicist?
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This was just a bad move by some overzealous security guards.
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Until then, uprisings against the new Norman régime had been confined to local spats prompted mainly by the heavy-handed actions of overzealous castellans.
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One reason that injury can occur in yoga is due to overzealousness, or even just plain enthusiasm, on the part of the student -- I have of course experienced this myself -- it is a natural response for a particular type of person when it comes to any activity that has physicality associated with it -- no matter what a teacher may caution.
Eddie Stern: Sheetal Is a Punk Rocker, or How the NYT Wrecks Yoga
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Herbert earnestly points to the fact that more than 300 economists have signed onto a statement urging policy makers not to undercut the change of recovery by focusing overzealously on deficit reduction.
Allison Kilkenny: The morality disconnect
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Indeed, one of the many reasons why I like this site is that the comments are quite open to adverse opinions (unlike HuffPo, who seems to police comments quite overzealously).
Think Progress » Demoralizing His Supporters, Obama Calls Nukes, Coal, And Oil Drilling ‘Clean Energy Jobs’
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I've seen it done here in Oregon and IMHO overzealously.
It's a Cutthroat World Out There...
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Police cars, buses and disabled drivers have all been victims of overzealous parking wardens since the Parkwise scheme was introduced.
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But some readings of Marx's materialism have been somewhat overzealous.
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I feel it is very important to warn drivers there are overzealous private clamping companies operating on private roads in the area.
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Perhaps it was the overzealous con brio on the part of cellist Andrés Díaz: maybe there are a lot of sforzandi in the score, but from where I sat I heard more percussive bowstrikes than pure tone more often than I would have liked.
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This isn't about "overzealousness": it's about enforcing the law.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Nixon blamed the "overzealousness" of a Highway Patrol unit and revealed that no one in his administration had reviewed the report before it was distributed to police statewide.
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Advertisers had argued that to ban the advertisements would be overzealous political correctness.
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One bit of sloppiness and his backing of a fruitless theory made him increasingly irrelevant which is actually unfortunate—he was otherwise an interesting, if bombastic and overzealous, thinker who contributed to many disciplines but his theory, called recapitulation or the biogenetic law, was abandoned because his theory didn't fit the facts.
The Haeckel-Wells Chronicles - The Panda's Thumb
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He almost had his helmet ripped from his head at third, and he sent one overzealous fan sprawling during his broken-field run toward the plate.
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Where will prosecutors and overzealous puritans draw the line?
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While its stated mission has been to support the nation's gun laws to prevent criminals and mentally incompetent people from acquiring firearms, the BATF has a history of what might kindly be termed "overzealousness.
Richard Feldman: Gun Rights & Marijuana Reform -- Issues Joined!
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They just had too much makeup," he continues, using a common term for overzealous cellar work.
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Some unionists especially at lower ranks are overzealous and keen to score points among members by wrongly advising the rank and file to go on strike.
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Nuts are high in monounsaturated ‘good’ fats and a handful may sate an overzealous appetite.
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Flying is already a pain, thanks to overzealous and intrusive security checks often devoid of common sense.
The Sun
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Although we must be careful not to overzealously proselytize, we can go too far the other way.
Le mot juste - French Word-A-Day
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The responsibility of parents can only be restricted under a court order, providing a safeguard against overzealous intervention by local authorities.
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He admits that he ‘may be overzealous at times,’ maybe even nasty or rude.
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The story creates the impression that this was a serious violation of privacy rights by overzealous government officials.
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Clearly these are pathways to injury, and it's not surprising that some people have wrecked their bodies due to overzealously practicing their yoga routine.
Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.: How Yoga Hasn't Wrecked My Body (Yet)
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He was ecstatic at the thought, but could never show it; he didn't want to scare her off with any overzealous behavior.
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The overzealous weekend soldiers prevented many of the veterans from getting to the car park next to their meeting room.
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Where will prosecutors and overzealous puritans draw the line?
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The Times" framed the story as a huge spy scandal beginning back in March of 1999, but has come under fire for its early stories, which some have called overzealous and inaccurate.
CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Media Prepares for the Great Debate; 'New York Times' Admits it Went too Far on Wen Ho Lee - September 30, 2000
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What I'm saying, in the end, is that e-voting must be implemented properly, overcautiously, overzealously guarded and protected.
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Sometimes overzealousness, greed, avarice, or fear of reprisal can affect human judgment.
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That you think that’s hateful and overzealous is just, I don’t know, kinda hateful and overzealous.
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