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- verb Present participle of
overextend .
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The parallels between Imperial Germany and Imperial America -- both in overextending wars to enhance their position versus powerful rivals -- are as informative as they are troubling.
Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010
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The parallels between Imperial Germany and Imperial America -- both in overextending wars to enhance their position versus powerful rivals -- are as informative as they are troubling.
Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010
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The parallels between Imperial Germany and Imperial America -- both in overextending wars to enhance their position versus powerful rivals -- are as informative as they are troubling.
Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010
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The parallels between Imperial Germany and Imperial America -- both in overextending wars to enhance their position versus powerful rivals -- are as informative as they are troubling.
Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010
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The parallels between Imperial Germany and Imperial America -- both in overextending wars to enhance their position versus powerful rivals -- are as informative as they are troubling.
Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010
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The parallels between Imperial Germany and Imperial America -- both in overextending wars to enhance their position versus powerful rivals -- are as informative as they are troubling.
Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010
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The parallels between Imperial Germany and Imperial America -- both in overextending wars to enhance their position versus powerful rivals -- are as informative as they are troubling.
Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread Mark Levine 2010
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I want a president, an entire executive branch AND a congress, that does not engage in overextending our presence, our hegemony, in areas where we don’t belong.
duh pookie 2008
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And if such shenanigans had any unintended consequences, such as overextending Rome's power to the point of bringing down the entire empire, well, the next fellow would have to clean up the mess.
Bread and circuses 2009
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"Mom will want to come in and decorate the room and buy window shades and outfit the room and make all these decisions for their kids, kind of overextending their influence," Goetze said.
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