Sentences with phrase «exaggerated claims in»
They also routinely exaggerate claims in the service of a good story.
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They claim flaws in RBC's methodology exaggerate affordability, so the measures should take second place to the price - to - income ratio and other indicators showing substantial overvaluation.
Block claims that the $ 231.1 million in revenue Sino - Forest made by selling timber in China's Yunnan province is grossly exaggerated.
Though the country's claims about its technology are often exaggerated, North Korea's latest advancement in its missile program have drawn concern from officials at the White House, who have said the country is «developing a pretty good nuclear reentry vehicle.»
BEIJING (AP)-- Sino Forest Corp. says its chief executive has resigned as Canadian regulators investigate fraud allegations against the Hong Kong - based company following claims it exaggerated the size of its forest holdings in China.
In conversation, be candid; never make false claims or exaggerate.
In November, the research firm issued a report claiming Focus Media Holding Ltd. had exaggerated its digital advertising reach.
The senior Israeli official who defended Iron Dome said he understood the skepticism because the world's first antimissile war — which erupted over Israel in 1991 during the gulf war — did produce exaggerated claims of success.
The shadow banking literature has vastly and rapidly expanded since the financial crisis, and has produced some interesting pieces, as well as some exaggerated claims, in my view.
Order requiring an Orlando, Fla., seller and distributor, of cosmetics and cosmetic distributorships, among other things to cease using its openended, multilevel marketing plan; engaging in illegal price fixing and price discrimination and imposing selling and purchasing restrictions on its distributors; and to cease making exaggerated earnings claims and other misrepresentations in an effort to recruit distributors.
Colin, I know it seems to be exaggerated when written in brief as I have done, but look to the beliefs and claims of these.
The Pope assures his reader, nonetheless, that in communion with the Church's living Tradition and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit «we can serenely examine exegetical hypotheses that all too often make exaggerated claims to certainty, claims that are already undermined by the existence of diametrically opposed positions put forward with an equal claim to scientific certainty» (p. 105).
Cornwall has good credentials — he is a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, and author of the bestselling A Thief in the Night: The Death of Pope John Paul I — but his new book is full of exaggerated claims and deceptions, beginning with the title and dust cover.
I guess that I exaggerate only a little when I claim that save Mohammed never ever somebody had believed in Allah, if Mohammed had not forced people through his sword.
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.
When it comes to bullsh*t, big time, major league bullsh*t, you have to stand in awe of the all - time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims — religion.
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.
A former Communist and Socialist who became an unvarnished anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer, Rassinier did not initially deny the existence of death camps and gas chambers, but he claimed that the number of Jewish victims was hugely exaggerated, and that most of these were in fact murdered by other Jewish inmates who had been given authority within the camps.
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.»
I have no wish to make exaggerated claims, but I think I can fairly say that in all these cases the sense of worthwhileness and purpose was deepened and strengthened when the work was seen to be part of the «immemorial plan.»
Both the charges and the claims are exaggerated, but there is enough truth in both to make of the race situation a very powerful appeal.
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.
Second, even if we accept the accounts in Acts, it is quite possible that Paul exaggerated the similarity between the appearance to him and the appearance to the apostles in order to authenticate his claim to be also an apostle, one called independently by Jesus.
The CSPI's claims are not grounded in science and grossly exaggerate the negative feedback to our products.
Organic marketers and anti-GMO activists exaggerate these efforts, making claims that organics are «pesticide - free» and don't use «harmful» chemicals that they claim are the mainstay of conventional agriculture, and often linked in their campaigns to genetically modified crops.
The Frenchman then moved to claim that everything in football is exaggerated, the good and the bad, which makes it tough.
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.
Mahamudu Bawumia's claim that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has since 2009 amassed and spent 12 times the nominal resources that the NPP had over its eight years of leadership is «cleverly exaggerated», policy think tank IMANI has said in its commentary on the opposition New Patriotic Party's vice presidential nominee's lecture he delivered on Thursday September 8 at the National Theatre.
Davidson glided smoothly in to her expert skewering of the Tory leadership contender who was accused of exaggerating her CV and who tried to claim that reporting what she had said was gutter journalism.
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.
Perhaps most alarming, just the other day, The Villager, made an endorsement in the race selecting Corey Johnson with a bunch of exaggerated claims.
«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.
During arguments Tuesday, Gassman also told Cooper that claims about Alfonse D'Amato's influence in Nassau were exaggerated, noting that he left the Senate 20 years ago and is a Republican while Lorintz was elected on the Democratic ticket.
But Ms Leadsom is facing issues of her own, after being forced to publish her CV in a bid to clear up controversy over her past business roles following claims she has been exaggerating her experience.
In a column last week, I argued that journalists and other non-scientists have the right and even in some cases the responsibility to question the authority of scientific experts; after all, «even the most accomplished scientists at the most prestigious institutions often make claims that turn out to be erroneous or exaggerated.&raquIn a column last week, I argued that journalists and other non-scientists have the right and even in some cases the responsibility to question the authority of scientific experts; after all, «even the most accomplished scientists at the most prestigious institutions often make claims that turn out to be erroneous or exaggerated.&raquin some cases the responsibility to question the authority of scientific experts; after all, «even the most accomplished scientists at the most prestigious institutions often make claims that turn out to be erroneous or exaggerated.»
Delaere argues that Macchiarini's claims of success were exaggerated and that he misrepresented his results in several papers in The Lancet.
So dropping the obviously absurd claim as may be as high as 6degC merely drops an example where the IPCC claims are so obviously over exaggerated that little confidence can be had in their work as a whole.
Still, in my view it would have been far better if the authors had presented their study as a «proof of concept» with some intriguing speculative results, rather than making the exaggerated (and insufficiently caveated) claims made in the paper, and more especially the press release.
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.
There are certain powerful brands which use a variety of deceitful marketing practices to push their products more effectively, and that includes everything in the spectrum of pseudoscience and half - fabricated and stupendously exaggerated claims.
Many of the claims of blue zones extending the human lifespan have been greatly exaggerated, but lifestyle factors in blue zones have been shown to promote healthy aging.
We are not interested in exaggerated 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.
Both unions, in statements, strongly condemned intolerance, but continued to claim the criticisms of the schools had been exaggerated.
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.