• "Generally, those people have fallen prey to a pushy, overbearing loan originator who wanted to close a loan, " del Rio says.

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  • Born into a Protestant family in a Paris suburb, where his overbearing father was head of a school for the handicapped, Mr Jospin showed little early promise.

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  • The music is typical Mario, but it can get a little overbearing at times, especially if you have the volume on the controller turned up.

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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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  • 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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  • Liking color, perhaps to brighten the dark mood of living on a family compound with overbearing in-laws, she filled flower beds with blooms.

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  • As well, Chinese involvement in the Kazak oil industry effectvely ties Beijing into a cooperative rather than overbearing relationship with its sparsely-populated, resource-rich neighbor.

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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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  • 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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  • In fact, the American Revolution was a fight just a few generations ago against an overbearing government that demanded what could be called economic patriotism.

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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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  • 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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  • In an effort to win a share of the work, fractious, overbearing men were for once ready to behave nicely towards one another.

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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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  • Casa blanca lilies, for example, are "a big, beautiful flower that's amazing but is sometimes overbearing, " he says.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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  • 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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