overreach

Example Sentences

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But this year’s bruising budget fight proved that divided government can still check executive overreach—and that sound fiscal judgment is worth fighting for.

From The Wall Street Journal

If past is prologue, he will overreach in response to this week’s peace proffer, rejecting what many in his entourage would view as an attractive exit from a strategic miscue.

From The Wall Street Journal

Imperial overreach comes home: financial crisis, a Spartan fleet off the coast of Attica and an oligarchic coup in Athens.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pocan and the 30 other House Democratic signatories voiced alarm over the memo’s potential to overreach.

From Salon

Mr. Biden embraced Israel, but also cautioned it not to overreach to its detriment in the region — and implicitly, to the detriment of the United States.

From New York Times