The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
There are fads in life and old people indulge things to excess sometimes.
Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high – some say excessively high – fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.
India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
We are a country of excess. So it’s not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
I believed excessively in Conspiracy Theories – though maybe not as much as the U.S. government does.
A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It’s a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.
Just because I like being healthy doesn’t mean I can’t have fun – I don’t drink excessively, but I’ll have a couple of vodka-and-sodas.
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
Beyond helping people have a richer social life, Uber’s also a model of collaborative commerce and efficiently tackling excess capacity.
Lie and tell the waiter that you’re deathly allergic to butter. This way you can enjoy the steak without all the excess fat.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or to take on new work. That’s something that was really on our minds when we came up with it.
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power – the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government – for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.
In terms of the energy-banking concept, what we’d love to be able to do is to act in a way where customers could deposit excess energy when they didn’t need it and withdraw it when they did need it.
I eat meat, poultry and fish in proper proportion – nothing to excess.
The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge when those branches are corrupted or consumed by passing passions.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.
You can always use a toilet seat cover from the stall. It will absorb excess oil, and if you add powder on top, your makeup will be completely refreshed – even if you’ve been wearing makeup for 6 hours. It’s a cool trick to get your makeup looking perfect all over again.
Pincurling is my secret! I wear my hair wavy alot, and so I don’t have to use all that excess heat every day trying to curl it; I just pincurl it.
I’ve always had these morals I’ve sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn’t create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.
I interview about three thousand models yearly, and I must see almost 20 tons of excess avoirdupois annually.
From time to time, an excessively strong dollar may have negative short-term implications on the economy.
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquidity planning by major financial firms pose for the broader financial system, and they must ensure that these firms do not become excessively reliant on liquidity support from the central bank.
We’d dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. Because of Paula, I don’t cling to anything anymore. Now I like to give much more than to receive.
You’re in a mess, and in excess.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
It is evident that the grip of ‘The Return of the King’ on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it’s tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
I’m the guy who’s started businesses, I’ve been a small business owner. I’ve employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that’s lost all balance.
Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I’d rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.
James is a domineering alpha male which is why I’m so attracted to him and why I sometimes hate him. And I’m a mouthy broad who has to be in control all the time. We must have broken up in excess of a thousand times.
I’m a conservative because I believe we’re here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.
I always wanted to be a main eventer in pro wrestling. I lived my dream, but the excess of the ’80s and the huge money of the ’90s became a great temptation for many of us.
I’m of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it’s formation of bubbles, whether it’s excess in the financial market, whether it’s excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to be measured, and it has to be anticipated in terms of consequences.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will one day espouse the communist ideology. But nowhere does it say we cannot live in peace with the U.S.S.R. In the nuclear age, there is truly no alternative.
The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn’t have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food – something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he’s also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building’s fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
