It may be asking too much to expect the policy experts to eat a little humble pie.
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Is it asking too much of religious and political leaders in Muslim communities to adopt a similar attitude?
She listens carefully, but then tells you if you are asking too much.
Getting people to rip out all their lines may be asking too much.
Alas, such restraint, in the face of an open invitation to seize more power, is asking too much of human nature.
But for most patients and their families this is asking too much.
It's equally important that companies be required to fully disclose all pertinent information to its advisers, but that may be asking too much!
All across Europe there are murmurs that Germany, which has benefited so handsomely from the euro, is asking too much of everybody else.
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Does your boss seem to be asking too much of you, seemingly oblivious to the amount of work you already have on your plate?
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But is it asking too much that if cuts are to be undertaken that the changes actually do something rather than simply appear to do something?
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Putting Stoudemire at center and Anthony at power forward for long stretches may be asking too much of both players both on the defensive end and from a fatigue standpoint.
Yet the results we require are really a matter of common sense: We expect third-graders to read and do math at third grade level and that is not asking too much.
The client was asking too much of his people.
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Curtis Mewbourne, who trades currency and manages fixed-income portfolios for Pimco, argues that asking other countries to give up their currencies in favor of the dominant U.S. dollar is just asking too much.
But in case you were wondering if the upshot of all of this is a Disneyesque house of harmony where pet and baby frolic and snuggle in happy unison, you may be asking too much.
That would be asking too much.
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The unifying theme of the chapters that follow is that we are unrealistic about students at every level of academic ability asking too much from those at the bottom, asking the wrong things from those in the middle, and asking too little from those at the top.
"There are a lot of players looking for clubs, but they're asking for too much money in this climate, " he said.
And Richards, who won 48 caps for England between 1982 and 1997, believes they are asking for too much.
And that was the way he pushed back against people that constantly said, you're asking for too much, too fast.
Sinopec Engineering is still gauging investors' interest in the IPO, but some fund managers said bankers are asking for too much.
Well I realize that I am asking for too much as your job is to report about the technology sector yet for some reason I strongly believe that you have the same mindset as many other Americans that oil is in great supply and does no harm to our environment.
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But asking who wants justice is too much like asking who wants ice cream, because everybody wants ice cream and everybody wants justice.
We have been asking too few troops to do too much for too long.
In all the chatter among human resource professionals and VCs about how to find and hire the best talent, Tjan says there is too much emphasis on asking whether candidates are qualified to do the job.
Instead, way too much time is spent asking customers what they want.
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