overcompensate

It can almost feel overcompensatory, and it strikes a bit of a sad note that the main sexual relationship in the film is an abusive one.

Grande's American Dream may not be an authentic dream but instead a series of overcompensatory behaviors that lead to material success while generating a deep cognitive dissonance about her identity.

likely to stray less drastically in either the overcompensatory or

Mjolhus, "Overcompensatory recruitment and generation delay in discrete age-structured population models," Journal of Mathematical Biology, vol.

overcompensatory awards when the product includes both patented and

Two of the most frequently used fecundity functions are the compensatory Beverton and Holt relation [f.sub.i](x) = [F.sub.i][(1 - [beta]x).sup.-1] ; see [13, 36] and the overcompensatory Ricker relation, [f.sub.i](x) = [F.sub.i] exp(-[beta]x), first proposed by [37] and later applied in [11, 14, 16].

It's the sort of car you find yourself involuntarily snorting at, because the driver is almost definitely an overcompensatory ninny in the agonising death throes of the world's biggest midlife crisis.

One may take exception to much of his analysis--his crude application of the categories of religion and politics, for example (though he himself admitted his blunt polarities were more rhetorical device than scientific procedure); one may point out too how the scenarios he depicted never came to fruition, or that the solution he recommends is overcompensatory in its emphasis on a scientific education; but the basic division of English society he puts forward and the prejudices on which it is founded and which it perpetuates is still applicable.

damages that are clearly overcompensatory are considered punitive and

Because of the overcompensatory nature of this correction when applied to experimentwise errors, and the increased likelihood of type II errors causing important differences to be labeled nonsignificant, we considered this adjustment to be too conservative and unrealistic (Perneger 1998, Norman & Steiner 2008).

Even without an unenforceability ruling, treble damages may still be overcompensatory, and the possibility of either remedy would be likely to encourage actual and threatened litigation.

presumption--introduces another overcompensatory bias into the law.