Sentences with phrase «exaggerated the number of»

Your cost can quickly get out of hand if your designer hits a roadblock (or simply decides to exaggerate the number of hours he / she worked).

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

«Of course these figures still exaggerate the number of Christians overall — the number of believing, practicing Christians is much lower than this and the number of those leading their lives with no reference to religion much higher.»

Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi has accused David Cameron of exaggerating the number of moderate troops in Syria.

Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the number of seats won by the largest parties; small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part of the final choice between the two strongest candidates.

Both Labour and the Conservatives benefit greatly from FPTP, which exaggerates the number of seats awarded to the winning party (and often the second place party too), meaning a government with an overall majority can be elected with barely a third of the popular vote.

The Lib Dems are keen to move away from first past the post (FPTP), which exaggerates the number of seats awarded to a winning party - or the runner - up - traditionally favouring the Labour and Tory parties.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — June 23 — The Milwaukee - area office of Great Expectations has violated Wisconsin's no - call law, exaggerated the number of participants» marriages and misrepresented its prices, according to a lawsuit filed by the state Justice Department.

While bird protection groups exaggerate the number of songbirds killed by cats, this does occur.

Though Welsh - Ovcharov believes that amateurs have exaggerated the number of fakes, she does agree that works from the Paris period, especially still lifes, can be problematic.

That, the OAG said, meant NCC had exaggerated the number of trees it was saving.

Exaggerated number of losers.

Not exact matches

Rumours of Canadian men assuming an equal share of domestic chores were exaggerated, the latest numbers show.

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).

And yet, new findings among a small but growing number of researchers suggest the Myers - Briggs» usefulness has been greatly exaggerated.

* sigh * people have known for decades if not centuries at least that the numbers of Christians martyred was exaggerated.

I have never been called a «heretic» because I believe that the number of specific prophesies about Jesus may be greatly exaggerated by some popular writers.

Fishermen must not exaggerate about the number and size of fish they catch.

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.

The greatest outcry, however, came from survey organizations who produce the polls, social scientists who utilize poll findings to bolster arguments about the vitality of American religion, and a number of Roman Catholic researchers who argued that we exaggerated the overreporting in their constituency.

For example, I am not opposed to the idea of exaggerated numbers in some of these accounts, as I think it helps make much more sense of what is happening and helps explain some of the problems inherent within the text.

The fact is, a good number of would - be immigrants exaggerate the dangers in their birth country.

Numbers are inflated and stories of healings exaggerated if not invented.

The number of children of homosexual couples has also been greatly exaggerated.

# 44 million for a player with exaggerated goal stats due to the number of penalties scored, in a relatively poor league.

Yes stats can be exaggerated like number of passes, dribbles but key passes = key passes, you either give someone an opportunity to score or you do nt.

Your exaggerating, Ive been reading in this site for a good number of years and early on yes I think it was a bit like that from some fans.

As for number 3, it is ethically suspect to exaggerate the benefits of breastfeeding, pretend that that breastfeeding is a matter of life and death in the US, mislead women on the state of the scientific evidence and above all, to shame and scare women about formula feeding.

The number of fathers losing all touch with their children is often exaggerated, but remains large.

I'm not a doctor but I'm well educated enough, with a enough of a background in statistics to be able to comfortably read something like a CDC report and I can see that, while on the right side of the issue, some of the numbers she's using are exaggerated.

Skelos and the Senate Republicans have also quoted exaggerated, unsubstantiated and contradictory numbers pertaining to the cost of publicly funding elections, ranging anywhere from $ 143 to $ 286 million per year.

It could be a routine hold for Labour in a constituency they have dominated forever, proving that rumours of the party's demise have been greatly exaggerated; it could be the route to Westminster for Paul Nuttall (for whom this is the fifth attempt to get into the Commons — still short of Nigel Farage's number), heralding the beginning of a big Ukip surge into working - class Labour heartlands; it could end up with a very close three -(or even four -, depending on Liberal Democrat performance) way race that shows the new divides in the electorate in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

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.

The devastation caused by the event is difficult to exaggerate — estimates suggest the number of fatalities could top 10,000.

Certainly a number of people who had studied electric eels had said this seems exaggerated or this seems crazy.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

The researchers found that «1) ingestion of a large number of calories at one time (binge eating) impacts metabolic parameters even when total calories and macronutrients are appropriate for weight; 2) the timing of energy intake is an independent determinant of the diurnal rhythm of leptin secretion, indicating a relatively acute affect of energy balance on leptin dynamics; 3) the mechanism of exaggerated insulin secretion after a binge meal remains to be determined, but may be related to the altered diurnal pattern of leptin secretion; and 4) as most binge eating episodes in the population are associated with the ingestion of excess calories, it is hypothesized that binge eating behavior is associated with even greater metabolic dysfunction than that described herein.»

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And, according to one study, those generate over three thousand dollars every second (of course, as with everything in the adult entertainment, this number may be a bit exaggerated).

While the site clams that there are over 30 million adults in the Lesbian Personals network, I think that number is greatly exaggerated and that the real number of real life profiles is closer to 2 million members at best, but even so that's a big dating pool for lesbians to explore.

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, Season 5, Episode 7: The number of disabled people in America is greatly exaggerated.

His eponymous number is probably the standout of the film, with Evans the only performer who really captures the exaggerated vibe of the cartoon he's trying to inhabit.

English and French - dub 5.1 Dolby Digital mixes allow the music (including a number of songs by The Tragically Hip) warmth and add dimension to the curling matches by exaggerating the resonance of rocks gliding across ice.

Learning her trade on the preteen sitcom Hannah Montana required nothing more than a limited number of exaggerated emotions, namely sad, happy, angry.

However, it has also misinformed viewers by presenting a distorted picture of the situation since Kony is no longer in Uganda, and the number of children abducted has been exaggerated.

The Get Into Teaching campaign advertisement, which prompted a number of complaints from education bosses who claimed the advert exaggerated teachers» pay, has been excused by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

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.