• It seems to me that the Israelis are often over zealous in their use of retaliatory force.

    BBC: Should Israel pull out of Lebanon?

  • He would like it to punish those audit firms that are over-zealous in their interpretation of Section 404, too.

    ECONOMIST: Regulating business

  • Officials are not uniformly zealous in enforcing labour standards and confiscating counterfeit goods.

    ECONOMIST: Give it a chance

  • The civil service matters too: Number 10 complains that it is being insufficiently zealous in implementing the government's agenda.

    ECONOMIST: Public-service reform

  • He is zealous in his efforts to raise the level of play, studying his opponents, obsessively practicing and demanding the best from his colleagues.

    FORBES: Leadership: On the Field and Off

  • At an EU summit in 2008, when the financial crisis was raging, Nicolas Sarkozy chastised the commission for being too zealous in upholding competition.

    ECONOMIST: Staring into the abyss

  • And many Arab regimes have long been zealous in pursuit of one big American objective, to exterminate terrorism (except, of course, when it is Palestinian).

    ECONOMIST: Is a Pax Americana in the offing?

  • Time will tell whether Britain's embarrassment over covert supplies to Sierra Leone (see article) will make it more or less zealous in the cause.

    ECONOMIST: Hey, anybody want a gun?

  • Mexico and Peru, with their rich heritage of pre-hispanic architecture, have long had an eye on the past, and are zealous in preserving their Spanish colonial towns.

    ECONOMIST: Brazilian cities

  • The Mage circles have rebelled, believing the Templars have become too strict, too zealous in their duties, and too quick to slaughter those who step out of line.

    FORBES: BioWare Announces 'Dragon Age III: Inquisition'

  • In other words, if storms caused by careerism in the curia threatened to sink the papal ship, it was partly because Benedict himself had been too zealous in stilling the nurturing waters of theological debate.

    ECONOMIST: Benedict's departure

  • What's fascinating is that the FSA has more or less admitted that it thinks that it may have been too zealous in the way it forced banks to build their capital reserves - or at least it has in a way, because the banks would say (in fact they do say) that the FSA is still facing in two directions.

    BBC: Have regulators deepened the recession?

  • But Golkar's chief advantage is that no other big party is clean enough, or zealous enough in the cause of reform, to show up Golkar's murkiness.

    ECONOMIST: The party that backed Suharto remains strong

  • Mr Cameron's zealous intervention in Libya, which came just a few months after he signed off on the spending reductions, has drawn attention to the gap between British ambitions and British resources.

    ECONOMIST: The defence secretary

  • By contrast, the authorities have been rather more zealous and successful in prosecuting Ranariddh's followers.

    CNN: POWER PLAY

  • Edmund, the butler, appeared with a flute of champagne, which Carson downed in one zealous gulp.

    NPR: Elevating the World's Oldest Profession in Chicago

  • Low level IRS officials became over zealous although this zeal may have originated in Washington offices, and who knows what low level official ordered the wiretapping of the AP?

    FORBES: Press Letting Obama Off As Bystander President

  • "The mere possibility of such (fraud) claims, which could expose attorneys to harassing and expensive litigation, would be likely to inhibit their freedom in making good faith evidentiary decisions and representations and, therefore, negatively affect their ability to act as zealous advocates for their clients, " Justice Peter Zarella wrote in the majority opinion.

    WSJ: Conn. court: Lawyers can't be sued for fraud

  • Or overly zealous regulators or a post-election change in government policy could unsettle mortgage lenders or home buyers.

    WSJ: The U.S. Housing Bust Is Over

  • Zealous missionaries have produced a highly literate population in Meghalaya that has happily adopted leather jackets and MTV.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | A Royal Tribe Under Threat

  • Some female births (as well as some male births, though fewer) are not recorded, in order to avoid reprisals by zealous family-planning officials.

    ECONOMIST: China

  • Pakistan's dictator, Pervez Musharraf, condemns election violence, including the murder of Mr Lone, but outfits based in his jurisdiction are its most zealous practitioners.

    ECONOMIST: On the eve of voting, a law minister is shot dead

  • To win, he would have to capture at least three-quarters of the support for Tom Long, the third candidate, an adviser to Ontario's premier, Mike Harris, whose campaign was tainted by his backers' over-zealous efforts to sign up new party members in unlikely corners of Quebec.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • The more zealous their assailants, the more it may be in their interest to persuade rather than simply beat them.

    FORBES: 'I Was Wrong:' How One Activist's Apology Changes the GMO Debate

  • The turmoil in the banking sector caused by over zealous lenders saw the government move to bail out the banks, with the taxpayer forced to dig deep and lift the tab.

    BBC: Jobless

  • This Mr Aliev seems to understand that, since power in Azerbaijan mostly resides with the presidency (and his parliamentary party is popular), he has little to gain from a rigged vote, and made a show of trying to rein in unreconstructed election officials and over-zealous police.

    ECONOMIST: The two faces of Azerbaijan and its president | The

  • This Mr Aliev seems to understand that, since power in Azerbaijan mostly resides with the presidency (and his parliamentary party is popular), he has more to lose than to gain from another rigged vote, and is striving to rein in unreconstructed election officials and over-zealous police.

    ECONOMIST: The two faces of Azerbaijan and its president

  • It is run by Richard Sulik, a zealous economic liberal who brought the flat tax to Slovakia in its free-market glory days.

    ECONOMIST: Slovak and Czech politics

  • The 60 ratifications required to set up the court were achieved in April, years before even the most zealous court supporters had hoped.

    ECONOMIST: Court quarrel continues | The

  • Expect it to score well here: Tesco in the last few years has displayed a zealous appetite for mining information about its customers' shopping habits by tracking data from its loyalty card.

    FORBES

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