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And about that "housing policy": This may sound like the old right-wing theme that it's over-reaching when government tries to help poor people, but that's not what he's saying.
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And about that "housing policy": This may sound like the old right-wing theme that it's over-reaching when government tries to help poor people, but that's not what he's saying.
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If you think through the analysis, strengthening state rights is a good corrective of the aggregation of an over-reaching federal power.
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So I will continue to go on loving artists and performers who may likely be strained or over-reaching or who have poor technique and little talent.
Bel Canto 2009
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"It is hard to believe, he told the crowd, that some in their industry were still giving more to Democrats than Republicans after, he said, Democrats hammered them with over-reaching Wall Street reform legislation."
The money problem Ezra Klein 2010
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I find that not only over-reaching, but audacious.
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Certainly, Attorney General Eric Holder's lending discrimination suit against Bank of America's Countrywide unit is simply another political diversionary tactic, when the real villain is over-reaching government misfeasance.
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The elder Mr. Murdoch felt James was over-reaching.
Scandal Clouds James Murdoch's Path Russell Adams 2011
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You know, this might hold water if it weren't for the fact that many of the Democratic members of congress are against over-reaching health care reform as well.
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The voters are concerned about government over-reaching and potential bankruptcy.
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