government overreach
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- noun
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exceso de poder del gobierno
- As long as government overreach goes unchecked, Liberty is threatened.
And and certainly we should all be cautious about government overreach.
- And and certainly we should all be cautious about government overreach.
- This is big government politics, government overreach.
Examples
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Throughout the summer of 2009, angry crowds at town hall meetings berated Democratic lawmakers on everything from government overreach to death panels.
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But there is unease over government overreach and an increase in thinly vetted and false complaints, according to the Washington Post.
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To me, having two chambers of Congress with one weighted by population and the other with equal weight given to each state is just a sensible way to ensure checks and balances against federal government overreach.
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It was a portrait of bureaucratic government overreach and overstepping their bounds just to make sure their bureaucracy continued.
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Once the voters, haltingly under Truman and decisively under Eisenhower, insisted that the dead hand of government overreach be removed, the resulting prosperity took everyone by surprise.
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Second, Alito pointed out that unconstrained delegation also elides purposefully constructed procedural constraints on important exercises of power that were designed to safeguard against government overreach.
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Many citizens fear government overreach when new laws seem to invade personal privacy.
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The discussion about government overreach often arises during debates about civil liberties.
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Activists warned that constant surveillance could lead to serious government overreach in our daily lives.
Synonyms
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7.4
Many rules that make doing things harder than necessary
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Taking on more work or responsibility than can be handled
Too much control that stops people from doing things on their own
Antonyms
How Intrusive
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- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'excessive intervention by the state' is directly and compositionally derived from 'government' (state authority) + 'overreach' (to exceed limits of power). This noun phrase follows a straightforward pattern found cross-linguistically (e.g. 'exceso de poder'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Government overreach comes from a simple picture: a government stretching its hand too far into people's lives, like an arm that reaches past a clear boundary. That's why the phrase means 'to get involved too much' or 'to take too much control'.