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  • Sveum guided the Brewers into the playoffs in 2008 as a late-season interim replacement, but he has served mostly as a coach in recent years for the Brewers and before that the Red Sox, where he was known as an over-aggressive third base coach.

    SI.com 2011

  • Sveum guided the Brewers into the playoffs in 2008 as a late-season interim replacement, but he has served mostly as a coach in recent years for the Brewers and before that the Red Sox, where he was known as an over-aggressive third base coach.

    CNN.com 2011

  • A spate of suicides last year in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were blamed on over-aggressive lending and collection practices by local microfinance institutions.

    Wise Ethical Investment Seeks Profit Geoff Nairn 2011

  • And the fact of the matter is that there IS such a thing as child abuse and that it does often come in the form of over-aggressive discipline.

    A Spanking A Day Keeps Failure Away? | Her Bad Mother 2010

  • Thousands, it turned out, hadn't even been convicted of a crime: they had been erroneously scrubbed from the rolls through an over-aggressive usage of deeply flawed criminal justice and residency databases.

    Sasha Abramsky: America's Disenfranchisement Scandal Sasha Abramsky 2011

  • I don't think we were vicious in any way or over-aggressive in anything we did.

    John Terry to learn fate after alleged racial slur of Anton Ferdinand 2011

  • -- F Cameron Johnson was suspended for one game by the Southland Conference after it was deemed he was over-aggressive in his running through a pick from PG Eric Bell.

    Southland Conference 2010

  • Meanwhile we have an over-aggressive USA, drunk with power, insisting on imposing TRIPS on everyone (and eager to move on to insisting that every other country free up their financial sector, tax in the same way as the US, dismantle their welfare state, etc — look at how the US treats Venezuela), all the while ignoring global warming.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Limits to Growth 2010

  • Balls's Bloomberg lecture, warning Britain was making an historic economic mistake by pursuing over-aggressive fiscal retrenchment, drew praise from surprising quarters, such as Boris Johnson.

    Six steps to a better Labour business policy Julia Finch 2010

  • Reflecting the IMF's concern about over-aggressive deficit reduction programmes, the joint statement said governments should manage fiscal consolidation to promote rather than reduce prospects for growth and employment.

    IMF warns of threat to global economies posed by austerity drives 2012

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