Sentences with phrase «exaggerated claims for»

Your defense costs are paid because the insurance company doesn't want to pay fraudulent or exaggerated claims for policyholders who can't afford an attorney for a protracted legal battle.

In this beautiful example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally had enough with Hill's Science Diet pushing the envelope on exaggerated claims for its products.

Add them to your pet's treatment plan if they appear helpful - but be cautious about exaggerated claims for the products.

We'll hear about self - regulation, modified self - regulation, a dab of statute, a slap of law, and advocates of one or the other will make great exaggerated claims for their position.

The delusive pursuit of a «cure» for mental illness, says the author, led to the exaggerated claims for institutionalization in the last century and, since World War II, has contributed to the de-institutionalizing policies that have left innumerable «homeless» wandering the streets of America.

Not exact matches

Lotchte has since apologized for «exaggerating» his claims.

There are a huge number of options to choose from and most of them go for a hard sell and make wild (and often exaggerated claims).

Of course the cynic can say that in attributing prodigious miracles and claims to the earthly Jesus, Mark is forced to exaggerate the disciples» failure to understand: to insert the messianic secret in order to compensate for unhistorical messianic claims.

There may be kinds of soap which are 99 or 100 per cent pure; there may be automobiles which are mechanically almost perfect; and claims for either the soap or the automobiles may not be exaggerated.

Cornwell is not alone either for one is reminded of the exaggerated claim made by former editor of the Catholic Herald Gerard Noel, in his book «Pius XII the Hound of Hitler» which also claims that Archbishop Pacelli, the then Apostolic Nuncio in Munich 1919, gave «a considerable sum of Church funds» to a «young man (who) had grave need of funds for his fledgling political party.»

For one thing, kings claimed power from God according to the Christian faith and, often enough, especially in that age of exaggerated papal claims to universal worldly power, their power was tangibly and visibly legitimated directly through coronation by the pope of Rome.

Each season, for example, he winnowed the significant events from some 500 to 800 college football games, patiently making allowances for exaggerated claims, local enthusiasms and sectional pride.

The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) Ireland is outraged at the suggestion that the survivors of symphysiotomy have exaggerated, or been in some way dishonest, in their claims in what has been a long and... Read More

While there's no doubt that giving birth and meeting your newborn is one of the most special and amazing times in a woman's life, Meltzer - Brody thinks these claims of being «blissed out» are exaggerated for most people.

That created huge incentives to play the system by claiming exaggerated values for furniture and fittings.

But I am saying claims of its significance are being exaggerated for political purposes and this has been done at huge cost to our movements and communities and to many individual people in and outside of our party.»

They often engage in denial that their local collaborationist units participated in Holocaust and other atrocities (it was all done by the Germans, you know, but we only fought for freedom against Stalinism) and / or claim it was a mistake, excess, exaggerated (by the Soviets), or because of the general cruelty of the war.

That has created huge incentives to «game the system» over the years by claiming exaggerated values for fixtures and fittings.

«DeVry used misleading claims to lure in students who were simply seeking a college degree, greatly exaggerating job and salary prospects for graduates» Schneiderman said in a statement.

The growth in spurious and exaggerated personal injury claims and excessive legal costs has resulted in higher costs for consumers, local authorities and the NHS, as well as making it harder for genuine claimants to get compensation.

He used statistics, at times exaggerated, to paint a rosy picture of the region's economy and claimed his own focus and a $ 1 billion state investment were responsible for it.

It's sometimes to the mutual benefit of both whips and rebels to exaggerate rebel numbers - the latter to try to create a sense of momentum, and the former to prepare the ground for claims of success afterwards.

Exposing them inevitably undermined the case for the practices, and often the wider credibility of the scientific institutions supporting the exaggerated claims of safety.

Despite these concerns, advertisements for herbal remedies often make exaggerated and unsubstantiated claims.

You want the value of your research to speak for itself — avoid exaggerated claims of its importance.

In 2006 two Dartmouth College scientists published an article speaking out against RLS coverage, claiming that the disorder's prevalence, and the need for drug treatment, is often exaggerated.

A lot of health claims are being made for it, but I think they are greatly exaggerated.

However the claims are often exaggerated for business purposes; knowing the science will allow you to separate the nonsense from the truth.

About Colloid Particle Size - Describes the exaggerated claims made for colloid particle sizes and what products are advertised using such claims.

Look out for any discrepancies in profiles which you come across, such as a photograph which does not seem to match the member's age or profile info or claims within the profiles which seem wild or exaggerated.

For this reason some niche dating site owners may be making exaggerated marketing claims on their site to try and lure in paying members.

As we all likely know well by now, speakers for both parties during last and this weeks» Republican and Democratic Conventions, respectively, spoke and in many cases spewed a number of exaggerated, misleading, and outright false claims about multiple areas of American public policy... educational policy included.

Yglesias» post argues that people who claim charter schools increase school choice exaggerate their value because people with the interest and means already exercise choice by moving around and out - compete low income and low interest parents for slots in those schools by increasing land values in districts that have them and by disproportionately applying for slots in promising charter schools.

If the claim is good — and Ruf has a reputation for not exaggerating — then only a tiny group of production supercars are faster, and then not by much.

For example, LitRes, the country's top e-bookseller, claims as much as 99 % of Russian e-books are pirated; others say this is exaggerated to scare foreign publishers into only working with LitRes.

To exaggerate a bit to make the point clearer: if Hachette only published 100 ebooks and had 99 ebooks priced $ 9.99 or less and 1 ebook priced at $ 14.99, then Mr Pietsch could accurately claim that 99 % of the ebooks Hachette publishes are available for $ 9.99 or less.

These programs can be confusing, and the claims made for them are often exaggerated.»

To be sure, the National Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing claims the risk at the pump has been exaggerated and that skimming is more prevalent in situations where customers don't see their card getting swiped (such as restaurants).

In fact, when ED fired five of its debt collectors last year for lying to student loan borrowers, it was precisely because those debt collectors» exaggerated claims about the benefits of loan rehabilitation.

In fact, when the Department fired five of its debt collectors last year for lying to student loan borrowers, it was precisely because of those debt collectors» exaggerated claims about the benefits of loan rehabilitation.

While some owners have expressed satisfaction with Science Diet dog food, the brand has recently come under fire for exaggerated claims and questions about the quality of its ingredients.

• increases the risk of cardiac hemangiosarcoma by a factor of 1.6 • triples the risk of hypothyroidism • increases the risk of progressive geriatric cognitive impairment • triples the risk of obesity, a common health problem in dogs with many associated health problems • quadruples the small risk (< 0.6 %) of prostate cancer • doubles the small risk (5; this is a common cancer and major cause of death in some breeds • triples the risk of hypothyroidism • increases the risk of obesity by a factor of 1.6 - 2, a common health problem in dogs with many associated health problems • causes urinary «spay incontinence» in 4 - 20 % of female dogs • increases the risk of persistent or recurring urinary tract infections by a factor of 3 - 4 • increases the risk of recessed vulva, vaginal dermatitis, and vaginitis, especially for female dogs spayed before puberty • doubles the small risk (< 1 %) of urinary tract tumors • increases the risk of orthopedic disorders • increases the risk of adverse reactions to vaccinations One thing is clear — much of the spay / neuter information that is available to the public is unbalanced and contains claims that are exaggerated or unsupported by evidence.

Unfortunately, this exaggerated claim provides fuel for those advocating against feral cat colonies and their caregivers.

Too many exaggerated / false claims will erode the credibility of science (just like for the WMD - reports).

If you want to claim that if Nic is correct, then previous IPCC estimates were not exaggerated, I would like to see your logic for this conclusion.

For once the number of houses is not exaggerated except from the claimed annual output.

But her claim that the scientific evidence for human - caused warming is «overwhelming» begs the question: If the evidence is so overwhelming, why do so many consensus scientists and their supporters feel compelled to exaggerate the evidence?

One of the unfortunate side effects of which was that (and this is not necessarily your field's fault in the direct sense) every two - bit environmental activist, campaigner, and pressure group took it as license to fully politicize the science with naive and exaggerated claims about the «effects» of global warming (apparently it's responsible for everything), or where the «tipping point» was (30 years, no 20 years, no 10 years, etc.) or how quickly we could «de-carbonize» our economy (50 % reduction in 40 years, no 70 % in 30 years, no 90 % in 15 years).

Mr Gore has been accused of exaggerating climate - change risks for his own political gain and conservative critics have claimed scientific research is skewed to play on the fears of the public.

Noble cause corruption has played itself publicly, for example, by some scientists making statements to the effect that «we need to exaggerate claims» in order to spur the policymakers to do something about the problem.