• Its attempt to be as big and brash as the actual tournament is overbearing and tackling this many graphics will daunt low-bandwidth users.

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  • Critics have lambasted Gates for a management style they label overbearing and bossy, but his harsh workplace demeanor belies another secret to his success: his unwillingness to compromise his goals.

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  • Holbrooke already enjoyed a reputation for being overbearing and peremptory--qualities that were to prove indispensable at Dayton--and he is forthright about being no shrinking violet, engagingly quoting unflattering references to himself.

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  • Skill, talent, inventiveness, all can become overbearing and intrusive.

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  • The red isn't overbearing and complements the black quite well, accentuating the power button, earpiece, camera and edges (as we mentioned earlier, the grille-like edge design was apparently inspired by Ferrari, and we fully support that decision).

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  • To many Indonesians in other parts of the archipelago, the new government's taming of the country's overbearing police and military leaders has been its biggest success so far.

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  • She said Labour's child protection regime "treated over a quarter of the whole workforce, some 11 million people, as potential abusers" by "requiring them to be monitored as part of an overbearing vetting and barring system".

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  • We live in an age of helicopter parents so pushy and overbearing that Colorado Springs banned its annual Easter-egg hunt on account of adults jumping the starter's gun and scooping up treat-filled plastic eggs on behalf of their winsome kids.

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  • But in this culture, his actions were seen as rude, insensitive, and overbearing.

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  • Tyson plays an elderly widow who shares a cramped two-room apartment in Houston with her devoted son, played by Gooding, and overbearing daughter-in-law, played by Williams.

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  • The automatic spending cuts never were intended to become law, but instead were designed to be so unwieldy and overbearing that Congress would reach a broader deficit reduction deal to avoid them.

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  • He is suitably grave, dignified and overbearing.

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  • The title character, Sam (Andrew Dickler), a bushy-bearded horticulturist, quietly overbearing cynic, and multitalented funster, is about to marry the perky, more conventional Steph (Marguerite Moreau), who gets curious about his estranged younger brother, Tom (Ben York Jones), whom she coaxes to their house for the wedding weekend.

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  • But he wasn't overbearing with it, and he didn't try to impede on the creative process.

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  • On the other hand, if the economy is slowing and there is overbearing concern that another recession could take hold, investors will lean toward the safer side.

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  • Germany cannot stomach the thought of the ECB fuelling inflation to dissolve overbearing European wide state debt and is refusing to let the EU go on a course of resetting out of control debts.

    FORBES: To Save The Euro Germany Must Print Money

  • Conversely, if politicians in California ever become too overbearing in terms of taxation and regulation, Google, Intel and eBay can simply move the human capital that drives the success of all three elsewhere.

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  • The first minister said the term as defined in the dictionary meant an "overbearing wielder of petty authority" and insisted it was used in public parlance a number of times.

    BBC: First minister's questions

  • Grace building just 12 blocks away on West 42nd Street, completed by Skidmore, Owings architect Gordon Bunshaft in 1974 and condemned as "overbearing" by then New York Times critic Paul Goldberger.

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  • You'll be pleased to hear that the vivid image reproduction also doesn't come at the expense of overbearing contrast levels either, with photos and videos appearing to have similar levels to viewing the same file on a desktop.

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  • Exxon's former CEO, Lee Raymond, says the move in part was indeed about costs and New York State's notoriously overbearing tax authority.

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  • Reports from the gleeful New York tabloids indicate that Tortorella's overbearing personality, his harsh treatment of players in public and private just ran its course, as it usually does with coaches like him.

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  • She identifies a series of ways that female executives can be more "male" without seeming strident or overbearing, for example being sure to shake hands before and after the meetings, speaking up sufficiently and being sure not to smile when asking a male colleague to adapt their behavior.

    CNN: Women at the top

  • Or maybe she's too attractive, or too young for you, or too overbearing or too serious or her offspring likes to squash ants and feed them to the other kids.

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  • Many blamed him for tactics they saw as overbearing, but others noted the role he took in negotiating between the demonstrators and his officers.

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  • It did not, however, always reflect British or even Tory opinion, which was (and remains) prone to seeing the U.S. as a coarse, overbearing ally.

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  • Runners are a dime a dozen in the mobile space and thankfully Tap Rocket succeeds at being a fun little flight of fancy without any overbearing microtransaction model or pretentions.

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  • O'Donnell will play Katie O'Grady, an old high school friend of Fran (Drescher) and Judi (Tichina Arnold) who arrives to help Fran learn a lesson about her relationship with her overbearing mother Dori (Rita Moreno).

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