Or would this be a grotesque over reaction to the phone hacking scandal which is, after all, now being pursued vigorously by the police and through the courts?
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.
And that seems to be the general reaction over here to the experience of the new Apple Maps release in iOS 6.
Sayyah expressed surprise over the intense reaction to the Forqani piece.
But they typically examine shareholder reactions over a few days or weeks and assume the immediate reaction is correct over time, at least on average.
Recall the collective angst over and instantaneous political reaction to U.S. Preventative Services Task Force's retrenchment in late 2009 on breast cancer screening.
The market was also hurt by growing concerns over medical professionals' allergic reaction to latex.
Sometimes HTC also throws in some super bright colors to get some feedback from focus groups, and one time it even had a "you've got to be joking" reaction from carriers over a recent pink prototype.
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First off, on Wikipedia, which is typically the most reactive metric to award show appearances and the like, Miguel saw a much higher percentage increase of page views at 557% than Justin Bieber at 25%, despite the fact that the latter was all over the press for his reaction to a divisive chorus of boos and cheers when receiving the Milestone award.
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Private equity fears a client exodus in reaction to the uncertainty over the firm's future.
Each answer, expression and reaction will be pored over by pundits looking to tell voters who won the debate.
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