Sentences with phrase «exaggerated claims of»

These can comprise exaggerated claims of loss, injury or damage, claims for fabricated, non-existent events and claims for intentional loss and damage, including arson.

We will view as uncooperative false or exaggerated claims of privilege, and we are prepared to litigate over them: to do otherwise would be to fail in our duty to investigate crime.

The Exaggerated Claims of Columbia University's NASA / GISS Unit, «Mattress Girl» & etc.»

I'm just pointing out that we've been through economic downturns before — far larger ones than could be supported by the hugely exaggerated claims of those who purport economic disaster due rational action taken to reduce CO2 emission.

Penetrating both the pretense that the consensus arguments are «all about the science,» and the exaggerated claims of certainty, is a great service, regardless of where one sits on the political spectrum.

Be skeptical of any exaggerated claims of treatment success that you read about online.

Most reports are just anecdotal accounts of treatment success, so be very skeptical about exaggerated claims of success and consult with your veterinarian before trying anything you read about online.

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

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

Whitehead's account of final causation is a masterful recovery of a seminal idea which had fallen on hard times primarily because of the exaggerated claims of its proponents.

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.

Recently, when I found myself waiting in line at the courthouse registrar between two extremes: one neighbour was seemingly senior member of the defence bar boasting loudly about the various inventive ways in which he's gotten clients off on domestic assault charges, and in the same loud tone how women tend to exaggerate claims of assault.

Not exact matches

Some of Trump's claims have been exaggerated.

Scholl claimed the impact of a sonic boom on people on the ground had been greatly exaggerated and that stories of broken windows were not based on reality.

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.

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.

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).

To claim these events have been over exaggerated is to mock the very foundations of our faith.

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.

This picture of the Dutch artist's dependence on his Flemish forbear (Rubens was almost 30 years Rembrandt's senior) exaggerates the evidence and contradicts Schama's other insistent claim: that Rembrandt should be recognized as an unparalleled genius.

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.

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.

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.

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 Republic of Ireland assistant coach had claimed that the Toffees exaggerate the extent of injuries carried by James McCarthy and Seamus Coleman.

Saying that many Arsenal fans are eager to get rid of our bench sounds like a ridiculous and exaggerated claim but is it?

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

What I * found * was a rant against exaggerated claims made by advocates of the film of what those researchers said.

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.

Nigel Farage has, of course, never made exaggerated claims to politically exploit public anxieties.

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.

As well as briefing against the Equal Love campaign, Stonewall also exaggerated the cost of equal marriage rights; making absurd, unfounded claims that it would cost billions of pounds.

Perhaps most alarming, just the other day, The Villager, made an endorsement in the race selecting Corey Johnson with a bunch of exaggerated claims.

A series of exaggerated claims were advanced by then White House press secretary Sean Spicer as the new administration showed exactly how it intended to conduct political debate.

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.

«His claims are, of course, exaggerated, and the way his administration has managed the program has raised a lot of troubling questions.»

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.

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.