What's the difference between outreach and overreach?

Outreach


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reach beyond.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
  • (2) After they were shuttered, they were supposed to be replaced by community outreach programs.
  • (3) Allen Mathies, president and chief executive officer at Huntington Memorial Hospital, cited a paradoxical side effect stemming from the success of his hospital's geriatric outreach programs.
  • (4) Local church groups run family outreach programs and free literacy courses for refugees.
  • (5) Approaches to the problem of access include vaccination whenever children come into contact with a health facility for any reason, channeling by members of the community, involvement of traditional healers and birth attendants, outreach services, mass campaigns, pulse technics, and financial incentives.
  • (6) It is suggested that the time-limited nature of therapy, the delineation of stort term, realistically attainable goals, and the vigorous outreach techniques by the therapists may have contributed to the unexpectedly high therapy attendance.
  • (7) This model, the Outreach Health Care Unit, is run by nurse practitioners in collaboration with family physicians and is centered at the site of social service activities for homeless families and single men in Yonkers, N.Y.
  • (8) Outreach efforts are needed to increase black Americans' awareness of depression and of the availability of treatment.
  • (9) This finding provides strong evidence that a comprehensive family-oriented outreach program for youngsters with chronic physical disorders can have long-term mental health benefits.
  • (10) Health and mental health centers employing both professional and nonprofessional counselors need to determine the value of adding outreach components to their services, and agencies which already have outreach programs may need to determine their relevance and effectiveness.
  • (11) Read more While many people think the painting was destroyed – either on purpose or by accident – Lynda Albertson, chief executive of the Rome-based Association for Research into Crimes against Art , a research and outreach organisation that promotes the study of art crime, said she is doubtful that is the case.
  • (12) The intensity and duration of the interventions, the extensive outreach efforts to the family and the dedication and commitment of the staff are not easily replicated but invaluable in helping providers and researchers understand to what extent the impact of severe deprivations and risk can be mediated and potential damage to the newborn prevented.
  • (13) While the type of intervention offered follows from the mission of the outreach program, all outreach teams must be able to address the totality of needs of people who are fragile and at risk for psychiatric and medical decompensation.
  • (14) Informal support groups of breast feeding mothers formed unexpectedly as a result of the educational and outreach activities.
  • (15) Jelacic's plans are to impact the tribunal's work in a country more torn than at any time during the war: "They involve entrenching the current outreach offices and moving the operation and the defence lines from The Hague to the Balkans: not just to Sarajevo, Zagreb, Belgrade and Pristina - but to the municipalities, the villages themselves.
  • (16) Subsequent adaptations have extended from the base of the CDT with outreach strategies and harm-minimization techniques.
  • (17) The home environments of 58 children with early histories of nonorganic failure-to-thrive (NOFTT) who received time-limited outreach intervention after hospitalization were assessed from 12 to 36 months of age.
  • (18) Girls are able to stay in school for a longer which opens up a world of opportunity.” Washiaka, whose organisation’s primary outreach tool is deploying trained peer educators such as Akoth, said there is a risk of returning to the situation of the 80s and 90s, when the implementation of the global gag rule by successive Republican administrations caused the closure of numerous clinics in many underserved communities in Kenya .
  • (19) The outreach program described here provides health care screening in an inner-city clinic to children and adolescents who attend any organized program in the community.
  • (20) Not only is Trump appearing yet again on NBC, he is hosting Saturday Night Live, the comedy institution that has a poorer record with US Latino outreach than the Republican party .

Overreach


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reach above or beyond in any direction.
  • (v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
  • (v. i.) To reach too far
  • (v. i.) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.
  • (v. i.) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
  • (v. i.) To cheat by cunning or deception.
  • (n.) The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Governor Phil Bryant only offered a grudging acceptance of the order, saying the court had overreached into states’ rights and was “certainly out of step with the majority of Mississippians”.
  • (2) I appreciate things like that.” News about things like overreach in government surveillance make her uneasy but she said her tendency would be to shrug and say: “As long as I have no plans to threaten the national security, I don’t really have any reason to worry.” “In term of health privacy though, once we start thinking about health and our families, I think it’s very easy to realize that this is the most sensitive personal information about us,” she said.
  • (3) To self-described “militia members” sleeping in wind-whipped tents, drinking camp coffee and patrolling rocky hillsides with military-style weapons, protecting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his family from an overreaching federal government is a patriotic duty .
  • (4) They know how we tick in America and Europe – and they know what pushes us toward intervention and overreach.
  • (5) We would have made things much worse by going in there.” Blair, who was steeped in interventionist ideals about fighting global “evil”, certainly overreached his authority.
  • (6) The attorney general, George Brandis , said Heydon was a man of “stainless integrity” and casting doubt on his impartiality was a “terrible overreach by the Labor party”.
  • (7) Tony Abbott’s got himself into a real situation here where he overreached and said that he would shirtfront the Russian president and clearly he’s not going to shirtfront him.
  • (8) The government had been trying to slash the RET after a review last year found the legislated 41,000GWh could overreach the policy goal of 20% of all energy coming from renewables by 2020.
  • (9) We need food consumers to band with us on government overreach and extreme environmentalism,” Erin Maupin, a Harney County rancher in attendance, told the Guardian.
  • (10) The government's intense secrecy is an overreach, conducted at the expense of international law, human rights and popular notions of fairness.
  • (11) "Leakers and whistleblowers, together with the investigative journalists they inform, are a critically important pressure valve, however imperfect, that protect us from an overreaching national security establishment that uses the justifiable needs of operational secrecy to avoid scrutiny for its errors of judgment, incompetence, or malfeasance.
  • (12) I talked Charles up in the briefings but some of the journalists thought Charles was overreaching himself.
  • (13) The White House has responded with fury, calling it another case of “egregious overreach by a single unelected judge”.
  • (14) We are pleased that the court ruled against the Obama administration’s latest illegal federal overreach,” said Texas attorney general Ken Paxton , who led the challenge by Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona, Maine, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah, Georgia, Mississippi and Kentucky.
  • (15) The groups called on the intelligence and security committee to consider whether some form of warrant process should be required for access to metadata to guard against agency overreach.
  • (16) Why are the Coalition and Labor both embracing this overreaching law?
  • (17) And now that the trial is over, I am none the wiser – save to say that I think the prosecution overreached itself in pushing for premeditated murder and that I agree with the judge that the evidence did not support the charge.
  • (18) We can not have a two tiered internet that supports the privileged and leaves the rest of us lagging behind.” But Republican commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Reilly the FCC was overreaching and its attempts at regulation were likely to be harmful and would fail.
  • (19) In his speech, titled “securing freedom in the age of terrorism”, Brandis argued the domestic security risk posed by terrorists must not be underestimated, but the government had “been careful” to ensure it did not overreach in its response to the threat.
  • (20) Legal experts have warned the government has overreached in applying the revocation powers to these kind of offences.