Overreaching in a sentence as an adjective

This is very overreaching and I feel this way after reading her blogpost, before I thought her complaint had merit but not now.

Microsoft is not overreaching here; this is what anyone would expect with a lame project like this. I'd love if someone really created an open-source Skype client, but this is not a project to do that.

The code could be used maliciously, but wasn't and there is no evidence it ever was, its NJ overreaching, pure and simple.

I dont view the USA as the center of the world - i see America as an overreaching empire that has had it's heyday. If you take a historical perspective this is how many empires fall.

I find it overreaching to conclude that every individual who is employed by the government in a law enforcement capacity chose their job out of a need to control other people. The world is not black and white and there are shades of gray.

With many here, it's either you believe Aaron should've been able to walk away scot-free, or you support an oppressive, overreaching, corrupt government, and the efforts to limit free access to information. Isn't it?

He certainly seemed to support the outrageous, overreaching prosecution that Aaron was facing." Aaron should man up, take responsibility for his actions, and pay his own bills."

> I am on record here on HN as having participated in the Take Back the Fourth protest in Minneapolis about overreaching NSA surveillance. Let your argument stand on its merits, not on what the argument-maker has or hasn't done in the past.

But all these gains have been cancelled out by overreaching security measures, mandatory waiting time etc. But there are powerful interests that like to keep it this way.

This petition could be a ticket and an opportunity for the administration to begin such a change, if nothing else, just by firing an overreaching prosecutor. That would be a symbolic action that would still send a message, albeit a weak one, but it would go a long way for many.

Whistleblowers seem now the strongest defense we have against overreaching and unaccountable centralized power violating the Constitution. Other people in Snowden's position must read Hacker News.

Fighting against the overreaching arm of the US Govt in secret courts for the last 6 years, without any potential for publicizing their plight exemplifies Yahoo's true stance on user privacy. Actions speak louder than words, what you do when no-one's watching, without any potential of direct benefits or exposure shows Yahoo's true colors.

What the protocol does do is help prevent misunderstandings, inadvertent outcomes, and the occasional deliberately weasly overreaching that can occur with informal verbal exchanges. It says to the investor: do I really have a commitment from you such that, should you back out, your reputation will take a hit?

Double underscore methods are generally underused I've found, and if you have doubts on whether you're overreaching, you can always add a method with the same behavior you're using them for in case anyone doesn't like how it reads.

Overreaching definitions

adjective

revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights; "vaulting ambition"

See also: vaulting