Excesses

"Excesses" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Tighter livestock control is leading to excesses: three cattle were shot in Kuopio because of missing EU eartags.

Tom has tempered the excesses of his financial risk-taking.

Democracy has, therefore, two excesses to avoid—the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy or monarchy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotic power.

Joseph Roberts, a man who was held up as an example of "the excesses of #MeToo" because he was barred from a campus for harassing women online and in person, has been charged with murdering and dismembering his girlfriend.

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