Sentences with phrase «by inflated numbers»

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When we helped a particular company with their pricing strategy before their IPO, we discovered a disastrous mistake - they had been mistakingly inflating their MRR numbers by just over 15 % by not taking into account certain lifetime discounts.

Some models of the Big Bang theory predict that the inflation that stretched space at the beginning of time also produced an infinite number of «pocket universes,» separated by impassable inflated areas of space.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The holder knows its value can't be hyper - inflated away because the number of Bitcoins is governed by a secure program.

September's retail sales numbers were inflated by hurricane - related gains, but even allowing for these one - offs, this and other reports pointed to a very strong final month for third - quarter consumer spending.

Adam, to suggest your SUPER inflated numbers (most were killed due to conditionso f war, including by their own governments failure to to give two squirts of piss about them and using then as human shields) somehow makes my country's actions in the war on terror equivalent to terrorism itself is beyond offensive to me.

Even it those numbers are inflated which is likely, since they are reported by a publisher of bridal magazines and benefit the industry by normalizing massive wedding budgets — they point to the trajectory of the modern American wedding.

By fading the average Joe, we can capitalize on public bias, get inflated numbers, and place ourselves on the side of the books.

It is also possible that his numbers are inflated because he only runs short to intermediate routes, which are favored both by Tannehill, and the offensive scheme that he plays in.

By going contrarian, we are able to capitalize on public bias and take advantage of artificially inflated numbers.

There are plenty of suitors, and given the price tag would be less than Everton are paying for Gylfi Sigurdsson — whose numbers are highly inflated by set pieces — it would certainly be money well spent, for whoever procures the graceful Ivorian.

In fact, that number is inflated by including 6,900 town - only special districts — essentially lines on a map that lack separate taxing authority.

And there's little correlation between the number of governments — Cuomo usually inflates the figure from around 4,000 to 10,500 by counting special districts — and cost.

Latimer, who just released his own polling data showing the race in a statistical dead heat, is talking about private sector jobs and accusing Astorino of inflating the numbers by more than double during his two terms as county executive.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was criticized this week when he suggested the number of sexual - harassment claims at the DOE had been inflated by the agency's «hyper - complaint» culture.

I also like how they disable any profile that has not been active in the last 4 months (I wish all online dating sites did this instead of inflating their membership numbers by holding.

Overall, GLAAD tallied 28 total LGBTQ characters from the mainstream films, which is down from 70 in 2016 (a number inflated by a musical number in the comedy «Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping») and 47 in 2015.

Shooting Once Upon a Time in Mexico with HiDef instead of celluloid cameras apparently allowed for more spontaneous implementations of CGI — Rodriguez claims that he solicited some 330 unallotted F / X shots (many of the niftiest of which Rodriguez deconstructs in the vein of football play - by - plays) and still came in under budget, though I'm not convinced that the sloppiness encouraged by the flexibility of DV (the phrase «we'll fix it in post» is a veritable mantra on HiDef productions) isn't largely responsible for the inflated number.

As critics contend, the state's aggregate test - score improvements on the 4th - grade FCAT reading exam — and likely on the NAEP exam as well — are inflated by the change in the number of students who were retained in 3rd grade in accordance with the state's new test - based promotion policy.

Just as for a child who learns how to read it would not be a good idea to ask them to copy the first 15 pages of the phone book to practice letters and numbers, and we would not expect them to develop an affection by for reading, we should not expect a teacher to develop a crazy passion for new technologies if instead of helping them to identify their needs and the types of tools that exist to address those needs, as well as to know the keys that underlie those tools, we are dedicated to inflating them to application manuals of which they will only use 10 % each time.

Inflated charter school waiting list numbers: WBEZ reported that charter school waiting list figure cited by charter advocates «significantly overstates demand» and that «the 19,000 figure counts applications, not students, meaning if a student applies to four schools, he or she is counted four times.

But Success officials said that these figures were inflated by the number of teachers who move from one Success school to another, or to nonteaching positions within the network.

There was widespread concern that principals were inflating their numbers by granting credits to undeserving students.

In addition to under - paying and overloading uncertified teachers with huge student case loads, K12 Inc inflated enrollment numbers by counting attendance merely by the number of students who logged in rather than the amount of time they spent online.

The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.

Average number of indie - only (frontlist) titles per author: 8.45 Average number of backlist (but now indie) titles: 2.93 Average TOTAL indie titles per author: 11.43 (again, this number could be slightly inflated by any duplicate reporting)

Corrupt the reviews by artificially inflating the number and favorability of the reviews and the entire ranking system becomes suspect.

Amazon has laid out five arbitration demands in a complaint filed with the American Arbitration Association (obtained by TechCrunch, see below), accusing the involved parties of offering services to boost the number of pages read in books, fraudulent customer reviews, creating fake user accounts to download e-books and inflate the numbers and other schemes to boost the amount of royalties authors and publishers were able to pull from Amazon's self - publishing platform.

According to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), the average gym - goer only makes it out twice a week — a number that's likely inflated by the diehards who work out almost every day.

The Department of Education admitted that it had initially inflated student loan repayment rates, with actual numbers showing that at least half of students at more than 1,000 schools defaulted or failed to pay down their debt by even $ 1 within seven years.

By taxing property profits, you reduce the number of speculators and real estate investors who help to inflate housing prices.

However, the price of open - ended funds can not be inflated by investor demand the way they can with a stock or other security that trades in a secondary market, because, as with the namesake they bear, open - ended funds theoretically have no limit on the number of shares that can be issued.

This information is widely available — and has been for years — yet many TNR opponents continue to inflate by a factor of two the number of free - roaming pet cats.

The tally attributed to pet cats, for example, were inflated by 29 percent «to account for the number of birds killed but not returned to the cat's home,» [1] but this upward adjustment was based on the authors» misreading and / or creative interpretation of three of four studies cited.

Of course the errors are even more significant when one inflated figure is multiplied by another — as when Lepczyk et al. [6] multiply the average number of prey items returned by the average number of outdoor cats per owner.

That's basically developers stat - padding by trying to inflate the number of copies of their game that are owned without people ever actually playing the game in the first place.

The game promises more than 60 selectable characters, but that number is greatly inflated by the fact that character transformations count as multiple characters.

(A bit of a black mark on the work's storied history: Rybolovlev purchased it from the dealer Yves Bouvier for $ 127.5 million, but quickly suspected that he had been overcharged by tens of millions of dollars, and filed a suit against the dealer in Monégasque court alleging a total of $ 1 billion in inflated prices over a number of transactions.)

It shows a significant negative trend, Fred, because you've artificially inflated the number of points by using monthly rather than yearly data.

And while The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial claimed the pipeline could create «179,000 American jobs» by 2035, these numbers are wildly inflated.

As we fill our vehicles with gasoline and watch the cost numbers whirl with artificially inflated prices, we might ponder, just why is it that, by refusing permits, our government did not allow us to drill for oil off the coast of Virginia?

The journalist Christopher Booker and Richard North wrote a book, «Scared to Death», which documents a considerable number of scare stories, based on science, that seem to have become inflated by the very feedback you describe.

Then general work around is to carve things up into multiple papers — this strategy works well for scientists in that their merit is often assessed by number of papers and citations (which is inflated by writing a large number of shorter papers).

One of the many lawsuits brought against law schools for inflated employment numbers has been thrown out by a judge in Chicago.

By lowering the number of users in the system, we have inflated our estimate of the per - person cost of the regulation; therefore, we assume that our estimate represents the highest possible cost for an individual.

Their statistic has come into question by some new organizations including The Washington Post, which say that the number has been «inflated» by including shootings and gunfire on school grounds that, for instance, did not include attacks on students.

However, the Herald's investigation suggests that some of the company's claims were untrue on its website, and that it inflated its traffic volume and the number of users by «a factor of 10,000.»

We inflated this sample size by a design effect of 1.18 to 210 infants per trial arm to allow for correlation between responses within the same cluster (that is, maternal and child health centre), 28 assuming an average cluster size of seven (the number of eligible mothers attending each centre) and an intracluster correlation coefficient of 0.03.

Of course, those numbers may be inflated by self - interested parties.

CREB is not disclosing why 2013 numbers are inflated over 2012 and many many Calgary buyers are making financial decisions based on the escalating market claims made by the CREB,