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Examples
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Downing Street is also finally tackling over-generous pay and pension arrangements for the public sector.
What Cameron Can Teach Obama Neil O'Brien 2011
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I already think those bookies giving England a six-point margin are being over-generous.
Six Nations 2011: Why Ireland won't risk playing into England's hands | Shaun Edwards 2011
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This is not the most patriotic observation I have ever made, but 10th most powerful person in the world is probably over-generous to the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
The only power world leaders have is to frustrate each other | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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They haven't educated voters that the greatest unfairness in state finances is an over-generous public pension system that is some $15 billion underfunded, or how Medicaid costs are gobbling up an ever larger share of the state budget, or how education reforms in the GOP budget, such as pay for performance, can lower school costs.
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But there is a delicate balancing act to perform to avoid the boom and bust already experienced in countries such as Italy, Spain and France, fuelled by over-generous subsidy.
Britain's solar energy boom is built on unsustainable foundations 2011
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I flour chuck steak and pork shoulder, and throw them into a hot pot with an over-generous amount of both dripping and lard.
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Depicting Margaret Thatcher as a human being is already being over-generous in the eyes of many, but this weird biopic gives us Thatcher as a senile old dear, looking back on her memories and conversing with the ghost of Denis, which means we're forced to empathise.
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Whatever the individual merits of those knighted, this over-generous allocation lacks civic sensitivity.
New Year's honours: Today's knighthoods speak volumes about our society | Observer editorial 2012
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Through the use of highly questionable methods, Neoliberal economists have presented a view, also known as the “Washington Consensus,” that blames European job loss to product and labor market rigidities, high tax rates on labor, over-generous unemployment compensation and early retirement subsidies.
Lynn Parramore: Mr. Davidson's Planet: NPR/NYT Guru Adam Davidson's Discredited Economic Principles Lynn Parramore 2012
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But she has cunningly exploited an over-generous and unduly loose system by which MPs claim expenses in order to fill her handbag with taxpayers 'money.
Simon Heffer on Jacqui Smith (now there's an image!) Not a sheep 2009
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