Humanity's collective demands have exceeded the earth's regenerative capacity by 26 percent. It is fearful that there are still large numbers of people dreaming the 'American dream', hoping to consume like the Americans.

This shows you are never too old to get surprised, ... In this case, the European regulators' demands exceeded anything I or our European advisors imagined, and differed sharply from antitrust counterparts in the U.S. and Canada.

We had high expectations. August exceeded even our own high expectations.

That is, their combined mortgage debts exceeded their home values by more than 10 percent.

We were already, in effect, under funded because the demand for services exceeded our capacity.

Our digital phone service exceeded expectations by 33 percent, and it's continuing to grow.