| They have certainly overplayed their hand and oversold their achievements and performance. |
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| It would appear that the Republicans totally overplayed their hand and the voters reacted accordingly. |
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| However, the importance of the ICJ judgement has been dramatically overplayed by international commentators. |
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| Instead, he overplayed his hand and introduced doubts and inconsistencies with his failed dossiers. |
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| With the polls behind him, he went all out and yet again totally overplayed his hand. |
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| It is now clearer than ever, after the 23 months of stagnation that followed his speech, that the Prime Minister overplayed his hand. |
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| She is the thinking pop lover's solution to overplayed and overdone artists. |
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| I haven't looked into the money side of things but I think they have overplayed the amount of work needed to be done. |
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| In fact this is a very romantic comic, and none of it's overplayed or plucks the heartstrings unnecessarily. |
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| While the role of the superhero in disability leadership gets overplayed, the role of xenagogue has room to grow. |
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| Ruth is a pretty funny lady, but her sass and verve seem to be overplayed and pretty much misused here. |
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| The accent on fighting is perhaps overplayed given the slight ropiness of the fighting system. |
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| The stereotype of the middle-class woman as the angel in the house can easily be overplayed. |
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| The young agent was so keen to serve the public interest that he overplayed his hand. |
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| The barons, predictably, overplayed their hand and the king was soon able to ignore many of the Provisions. |
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| The director of the Edinburgh Film Festival said the film was influential but its overall importance was overplayed in Scotland. |
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| It is my opinion that these criteria were overplayed in the C. B. C. evidence. |
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| Hilde revitalizes him, absorbing his ambition into her own body, from which it reëmerges as overplayed sexuality. |
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| But the allegation is impossible to prove. Regardless of who staffs the dirty-tricks department, it may have overplayed its hand. |
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| Cyprus has often been overplayed as the reason for the collision of the trains. |
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| You can see from the early days of the synchrotron when, I think, in some ways, the industrial spinoff part was maybe overplayed. |
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| The track will be overplayed by worldwide DJs and hit many charts, according to the musical power of this production. |
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| Emergency is a kind of an overplayed word here, I think, unless one is the victim of an overactive imagination. |
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| In some of these respects, the country resembles more the USA than continental Europe, although such comparisons can be easily overplayed. |
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| Yet another participant noted that Canada-US differences in approaches to liability are overplayed. |
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| According to Jia, problems vary from country to country and operation to operation, and in many cases are overplayed. |
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| He says that pre-cleaning ships is the way forward and that the risks of towing tankers are overplayed. |
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| I think it was overplayed, but I definitely think that as time goes on, it becomes more and more difficult to get inside Georges' head. |
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| So I think they've way overplayed this and overstretched this issue. |
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| De Havilland made the point that bloggers are unaccountable, and suggested that the influence of blogging was being overplayed, mostly by bloggers themselves. |
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| Republicans have overplayed their hand on federal court nominations, leaving the president in a win-win position. |
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| That said, the rural-urban split should not be overplayed as the scale of pre-election intimidation doubtless served to distort the political process in the rural areas. |
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| Impotent observers of a totally unequal battle, we wondered how could anyone of such obvious intelligence have overplayed their hand so catastrophically. |
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| The hundred thousands of children, women and men piled up, since January 12, in temporary tents, will need to progressively get out of them, since the epidemic Russian roulette has been overplayed. |
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| But I think a lot of the hysteria in certain quarters about Chavez is a little bit overplayed, and I'd like to segregate his economic policies from his foreign policy rhetoric. |
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| However, the money-lenders had overplayed their hand. |
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| Add to that the shock and horror of nurses and doctors and ambulance teams arriving in spacesuits to treat people or remove them from their homes and you have a story that cannot be overplayed. |
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| The importance of the renminbi being pegged to a basket of currencies rather than to the US dollar should therefore not be overplayed on markets outside this currency pair. |
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| Some maintain that the matter should not be overplayed, that a mere read-through may prove instructive and that, in any event, what already exists cannot be hidden. |
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| Furthermore, the scenes complained of do not generally show the occurrence of violent acts as much as they do the results of the violent acts and, at that, the violence is not overplayed. |
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| It also aims to place the ECOMOG intervention in perspective regarding the British and UN interventions whose role is often overplayed in comparison. |
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| While Arab-Israeli peace is undoubtedly an important aspect of regional security, it is not the only one and the structure of ACRS overplayed this issue. |
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| The consequences perhaps have been overplayed, certainly with a lot of help from the media, with very drastic consequences for the city of Toronto. |
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| Environmental concerns about non-seasonal and airfreighted fruit and veg have been overplayed, the Fresh Produce Consortium has claimed. |
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| The first few shots went wonderfully, but Robin overplayed the last and lost. |
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| Although the play was wonderful, Joshua overplayed his role as the Beast. |
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| An astute financier but a less astute politician, Necker overplayed his hand by demanding and obtaining a general amnesty, losing much of the people's favour. |
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