Imperial overreach, political polarization, and a costly financial crisis are weighing on the economy.

George W. Bush committed the cardinal sin of all fallen empires that of overreach.

The EU would fall victim to what the historian Paul Kennedy calls imperial overreach.

Activists like Peter Eckersley saw it as an enormous overreach, threatening the technical integrity of the Internet itself.

There have been allegations of judicial overreach, since the courts are not supposed to don the role of the legislature

PARIS The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overreach and excessive delegation of security responsibilities to newcomers.

And clouds really should be white at least, and oceans should meet us at the beach, and I don't want to overreach

Military overreach has predictably led to nervousness about using military power, and others knowledge of this threatens to weaken America s security as well.

Americans have long been skeptical of government, with a tradition of resistance to perceived government overreach that extends back to their country s founding years.

Likewise, the current turmoil in Turkey is, at least in part, a consequence of neo Ottoman overreach by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s government.

For two decades, Myanmar behaved likewise, until Chinese overreach, particularly the now abandoned Myitsone dam project, revealed in full the subservient relationship that China envisioned.

Imperial overreach, political polarization, and a costly financial crisis are weighing on the economy. Some pundits now worry that America is about to succumb to the British disease.

The US, for its part, while justified in joining the ASEAN claimants in pushing back against Chinese overreach in 2010 2011, must be careful about escalating its rhetoric.

( Remember also ) Qarun , Pharaoh , and Haman there came to them Moses with Clear Signs , but they behaved with insolence on the earth yet they could not overreach ( Us ) .

( Remember also ) Qarun , Pharaoh , and Haman there came to them Moses with Clear Signs , but they behaved with insolence on the earth yet they could not overreach ( Us ) .

And clouds really should be white at least, and oceans should meet us at the beach, and I don't want to overreach when I know what's in store, raw love.

And clouds really should be white at least, and oceans should meet us at the beach, and I don't want to overreach when I know what's in store... instrumental and chorus

Following the NATO led intervention in Libya in 2011, which the Kremlin regarded as another example of Western overreach, Russia has been more aggressive in asserting itself internationally, mainly in opposition to the US.

The cause was not an attempt by the global South to revive outdated notions of unlimited sovereignty rather, it was a reaction to the perceived overreach of the NATO led military intervention in Libya in 2011.

The danger is that overreach will lead civil society and voters in democratic developing countries to react against self serving displays of hegemonic might by jettisoning free trade itself, on the assumption that such openness is little more than neo colonialism.