"reacción exagerada" in English

Is this opportunism, accurate evidence or over-reacting?

There has been complete over-reaction from the very beginning.

Of course, it has to be said that there has been something of an overreaction since Fukushima.

That fatal incident elicited an overreaction, which led to the First World War.

Over-reaction will play into the hands of the separatists, turning terrorists into martyrs and heroes.

However, it would seem that this was an overreaction and that the area from which the population was resettled was too large.

a case of police overreaction

However, it is also clear that those provocations led to an overreaction by Georgia's President Saakashvili.

Instead, he has chosen to present his over-the-top proposal, which has provoked opposition from a significant proportion of this House.

What we can do in the European Parliament and the EU is to ask the new democratic Indonesian Government not to over-react.

Neither do I believe that it is sensible to indulge in a kind of ‘ yo-yo’ system: first we liberalise and deregulate and then we intervene once again.

He knows and understands their problems which, in this case, relate directly to road safety and concern us all.

While markets may be tight, there has certainly been an over-reaction at the level of prices given what the physical fundamentals tell us.

The combination of this awareness and a sense of moderation mean that the proposed measures have been addressed realistically and without overreacting.

It first played the issue down and kept it under wraps and then - at least in some cases - overreacted, even taking measures appropriate to a police state.

President Putin even acknowledged that there might have been some overreaction on the Russian side and he regretted that the Estonian Ambassador had to leave Moscow.