Commenters suggested that the proposed rule's definition of the term "attorney" was unnecessarily broad.

But that interest does not justify an unnecessarily broad suppression of speech addressed to adults.

His statements were extremely sweeping, unnecessarily broad, and a lot of them were internally inconsistent.

When society makes an unnecessarily broad assumption that nearly all research with financial implications for investigators or their institution is potentially corrupted, a brake is placed on progress.

Particularly do I not think that the Fourteenth Amendment should be given such an unnecessarily broad construction.

However, the scenes that take place in the outside world are painted with unnecessarily broad and occasionally offensive strokes.

He noted that the Act "is an effective means of avoiding unnecessarily broad prohibitions and carefully targeting specific toxic substances."

Five groups demanded in a lawsuit today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation forever seal records of a 1983 inquiry on terrorism, one the bureau has since acknowledged was unnecessarily broad.

I am pleasantly slender; you are unnecessarily broad.

Human rights advocates contend that the amnesty law, passed this fall to comply with a new Central American peace treaty calling for amnesty for political crimes, is unnecessarily broad.