News of its fall induced a surfeit of celebratory gunfire.
Given a surfeit of green PR bunkum, it is not easy to know whether they mean what they say.
The drop did not reflect a reduction in claims but a surfeit of capacity: start-up insurers in America and Bermuda have rushed to provide D&O cover.
Aside from the plethora of street food on offer, you will also find a surfeit of fortune-tellers and herbalists and some free, open-air Cantonese opera performances here.
An excess or surfeit, as of employees, expenses, or procedures.
The voters are pretty sick of such a surfeit of primary sloganeering.
Food surfeit and constipation are brain nerves to lose one of the equilibrium symptoms, is also reduce weight of two big night enemies.
"The result of this state of affairs is an incalculable surfeit of suffering, not just for those about to die but also for their loved ones," the study said.
Sociologists fret about the surfeit of unmarried men - the result of selective abortions that favor sons - and the demands on only children forced to care for elderly parents.
The illiberality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty.
Power cuts dog Gazan life, but Hamas profits from the taxes it collects on the fuel that powers a noisy surfeit of generators.
Chameleons of applause they afford others a surfeit of laughter.
In 1954 Sir Arthur Lewis, a development economist, noted Asia's overmanned farms, its surfeit of dockworkers and petty traders, and “the young men who rush forward asking to carry your bag”.
Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content.
