Sentences with phrase «for exaggerating the numbers»

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.

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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).

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

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.

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

For a second I thought your numbers were ridiculously exaggerated.

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.

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 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.»

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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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.

It, together with tax loss harvesting, is a potentially powerful tool and worth a careful look, but even then it may be useful for only a small number of extreme early retirement savers, and even then the benefits might be vastly exaggerated.

The reason for this is that a breed is produced from a select number of dogs, by people who want to exaggerate or retain certain features.

For years now, ABC has been promoting erroneous and misleading information (e.g., baseless feral cat population numbers, exaggerated / erroneous predation rates, etc.) in their tireless effort to vilify free - roaming cats.

Thanks to an difficult access and an exaggerated reputation for sharks found mainly on the East coast and 10 km offshore only a small number sighted close inshore, Madagascar is the surfing worlds biggest secret spot!

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

In a nutshell, I think it has been greatly exaggerated by a number of special interest groups with an axe to grind» — would suggest that you do, but you're saying is that certain groups and individuals are milking it for gain.

From their paper alone it would appear I exaggerated, but the «doubling» was based on numbers quoted in the petition to place the Emperor in the Endangered species list in which the Center for Bioogical Diversity argued a declining population.

ddb, The incidence of hot days each year, analysed for some major Australian cities using various definitions of «hot» (aka «extreme» to exaggerating warmists)-- well, the number of hot days per year is not increasing.

For years they and a number of researchers have claimed that the models have severely exaggerated the projected warming by greenhouse gases emitted by man and that observations over the past 20 years for the most part refute the theoFor years they and a number of researchers have claimed that the models have severely exaggerated the projected warming by greenhouse gases emitted by man and that observations over the past 20 years for the most part refute the theofor the most part refute the theory.

Professor Nordhaus chooses 3.0 degrees C for doubling of CO2, 9 a value that empirical evidence suggests is greatly exaggerated.10 To illustrate the point, for a climate sensitivity of 1.0 degree, a value suggested by a number of empirical studies, Professor Nordhaus's «DICE» model calculates that the optimum policy's net benefits drop from about $ 3 trillion to a net cost of about $ 1 trillion, and the benefit - to - cost ratio plunges from 2.4 to 0.5.

18F implies almost two degrees a decade, a huge number considering the warming over the last decade has been close to zero and no decade has had warming of more than about 0.3 F. Further, I am sure the Sierra Club found someone who actually produced such a study, but the IPCC «consensus», which I think is exaggerated, calls for only about 4 - 6F increases in the next century.

However, there are also a number of people within the London arbitration community who consider that the effect of losing the ability to issue anti-suit injunctions has been grossly exaggerated and that London's popularity as a set for international arbitration will not be diminished by the ruling of the ECJ.

Along with a recent UK parking study (which indicated * minor * gender differences, which the media then exaggerated), it appears to have been the inspiration for a large number of recent reports about male vs female driving.

This included «diminishing and discrediting the resistance,» (like insisting on low turnout numbers for protests) but also by «exaggerating, enthusing, and claiming broad public support» for pro-government... well, everything.

Exaggerated numbers: Was your applicant truly responsible for doubling sales at his or her previous company?

But what if those numbers are exaggerated, as is the case for the 3rd most common resume lie.

I would suggest the exact opposite for a number of reasons, the first of which is that: today's seller's do have greater access to information and are less likely to be fooled by a practitioner who is willing to buy a listing, by exaggerating its market value.