Meanwhile, leading black Democrat politicians, used to complaining about over-reaction, have called for tougher action.
That, too, may turn out to be an over-reaction - or at least behind the curve.
But Education Minister Najib Tun Razak last week maintained this was necessary to prevent an over-reaction.
But the consultation, which took the form of letters to local planning chiefs, concluded that it would be a "disproportionate over-reaction".
Time for some deep Lamaze breathing, a little reflection on the virtues and insanity of hero worship and a lot less over-reaction.
The Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce has said the ban is an over-reaction.
The main Muslim organisation in the Netherlands, CMO, said the plan was an "over-reaction to a very marginal problem", the Associated Press reported.
However British Conservative Struan Stevenson said the response was an "over-reaction", and insisted that oil drilling in the North Sea was probably the safest in the world.
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"It was a massive over-reaction, " Woodward told BBC Radio 5 Live.
There's always an over-reaction in this country because Andy's the only British player with a realistic chance of glory, but he's mature enough to deal with that.
But the public relations industry has warned against an over-reaction to the current crop of lurid headlines, stressing that nothing has been proved against the four Labour peers.
The deep sell-off may have been something of an over-reaction.
From afar, this internal Israeli upheaval looks like an over-reaction.
Those of us who are sad at the destruction wrought by the tsunami and angry at the horrible over-reaction to Fukushima that has hurt more people than the radiation ever will.
Thursday, top MBIA executives tried to calm investor anxiety about the fate of the firm, saying the stock's plunge in the last year was an over-reaction to problems facing the industry and the result of "fear-mongering" and "distortions" by self-interested investors.
Thursday, top MBIA (nyse: MBE - news - people ) executives tried to calm investor anxiety about the fate of the firm, saying the stock's plunge in the last year was an over-reaction to problems facing the industry and the result of "fear-mongering" and "distortions" by self-interested investors.
One option being discussed is an over-the-horizon British rapid reaction force based at sea.
While this reaction may have been an over-exaggeration, as Dennis Gartman noted, players in the gold market seem to have placed their bets on Bernanke and additional monetary easing.
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Their summit with the First Minister and his cronies was a reaction that was more than a shade over-the-top, but it was quite the most clear warning shot across the bows of the game, for all that.
Their reaction to these by-elections will thus be watched closely over the coming weeks.
Over the millennia we have constructed a carefully balanced jurisprudence of after-the-fact reaction to harms, especially crimes.
You can only imagine Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin's reaction when he discovered there had been a catastrophic cock-up over the West Coast franchise.
The company noted that European coal generation increased 13% in June over the last 12 months as a result of nuclear cutbacks, a knee-jerk reaction to nuclear power given the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, and higher gas prices, further feeding demand for coal.
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In Japan in 1999, an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction at a uranium-reprocessing plant killed two employees and spewed radioactive neutrons over the countryside.
But Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said there was "extreme concern" over possible movements in bond spreads as a reaction to the results.
Striker Villa hit the underside of the bar with only David de Gea to beat before the goalkeeper made a reaction save from Nicola Zigic's point-blank header and then tipped over another effort.
There was some frustration over Scott Rendell's on-off move from Peterborough, but Rolls says he received a good reaction from the club's shareholders at the recent AGM.
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