Sentences with phrase «inflate their claims of»

This process was slightly marred by corruption, which allowed some wealthy and connected people to inflate their claims of land ownership.

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude, who is responsible for the Civil Service, said: «Our official estimates are that fewer than half a million took part in this strike action — well short of the inflated claims of union leaders.

Among his alleged crimes was scamming $ 950,000 from FEMA by inflating claims of Hurricane Sandy damage.

Among other things, Future Tech set up shell companies and then vastly inflated its claims of how much those companies charged.

«This article makes an attempt at revealing some of the truths surrounding inflated claims of RSD schools.

Of these, more than 60 % have been enacted by communities without any pet stores operating within their jurisdictions, making them gestures meant to «send a message» without any real effect and inflating the claims of ban supporters when advocating for additional pet sale prohibitions.

With some exceptions of terrific artists, such as Bruce Nauman, Josephs Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Elizabeth Murray, Bill Jensen, and a few others, never before had there been so many artists in one place craving for attention, nor so many inflated claims of artistic achievement and so little humility.

In any event, even using such inflated claims of «subsidies», on a joule / subsidy - cost basis, fossil fuels beat the snot out of renewables.

Not exact matches

The company denies all of the claims in the report, which accuses the company of falsifying data to inflate the size of its timbre holdings in China, among other offenses.

The first product he claimed would save lives was a set of sweatbands that he said would inflate upon impact.

The first allows those claiming Employment Insurance to earn extra income on top of their benefits, and the other inflates benefits for claimants in regions with high jobless rates.

Citing census data, an equity research analyst claims Facebook is once again inflating one of its key metrics, this time grossly over-reporting its ability to sell ads and effectively inventing millions more young Americans than actually exist.

Glaucus claims that Blue Sky inflates the value of its investments, and that its published fee - earning assets under management figure is not the $ 4 billion the company presents, but less than $ 1.5 billion.

Forbes, in turn, notes that Trump has a long history of trying to inflate his Forbes valuation and decades ago editors even joked about having a «Trump rule» when assessing Trump's net worth - consider the amount Trump claims and then divide it by three to get the real worth.

Not since St. Augustine's City of God have we had a theologian who so shifted the locus of sin from the visible misuse of natural impulses to the more subtle area of man's inflated self - assertion that hides behind claims of moral disinterestedness and superiority.

It's claimed that Monaco believe the French ace could be worth around # 75m after another season in France if he continues on his current path of progression, and while that may be a bit inflated at this stage, his valuation is certainly going to rise further if he maintains the level he displayed last season.

The history of psychedelic research includes many serious scientists but also many inflated claims about the benefits of the substances.

The GJA's call came in the wake of the Jospong Group's [owners of, Zoomlion and other subsidiaries] denial of claims that it inflated the cost of a contract it had with the Mahama government to supply waste bins.

After an audit by the Erie County Comptroller's office bore out whistleblowers» claims of inflated billing and inadequate training, Urban League President Brenda McDuffie and her supporters say it's a political witch hunt.

Related claims in a lawsuit that the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York inflated construction costs by more than $ 100 million at the megaproject, the New York Post reported.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was criticized this week when he suggested the number of sexual - harassment claims at the DOE had been inflated by the agency's «hyper - complaint» culture.

The move announced by the Department of Financial Services comes after regulators found some providers have charged the prevailing fee or more outside of New York, which has led to inflated claims and deplted coverage as well more lawsuits and increased premiums.

We note that this is just a budget proposal, so it might come out from the State Assembly either reduced or inflated, the latter being the norm with our practice of democracy and the claimed «oversight functions» of the legislative arm of government.

Jospong Group, owners of waste management firm, Zoomlion and other subsidiaries, has described as malicious recent claims that it inflated the cost of a contract it had with the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to supply waste bins.

Other Nassau and Suffolk Republican insiders can't find it in themselves to muster even that polite sort of response, and claim Flanagan — and his Tea Party group — have an inflated sense of their own importance.

It would be recalled that in the heat of the election processes, there was public outcry over the award of the pink sheets contract to Aerovote, which some critics claimed it was inflated when the GH cents 7.2 million price was revealed by the commission.

«The chairman of the committee on Science Space and Technology is making what to us is a pretty ludicrous assertion, that rather than trying to protect the rights of citizens to ensure that business fraud, and could be very significant business fraud we could talk about inflating up assets by many billions of dollars, their claim is that this is a politically charged effort to silence descending views on climate,» Schneiderman said on a recent visit to Syracuse.

On the other side, mostly Labour MPs said cuts in spending are hitting Wales disproportionately and dismissed claims of growth in the economy as being based on increasing personal debt and inflated house prices.

Mayor de Blasio wouldn't go anywhere near his own charge that the Department of Education has a «hyper - complaint dynamic» that leads to an inflated number of complaints — including of sexual harassment — when asked about the claim on Friday.

At New Scientist, he continued his campaigning and infected a younger generation of journalists with a strong scepticism for the inflated claims drugs companies made about their products.

• Our claim that 500 tonnes of methane per square kilometre was bubbling up from the Arctic seabed (30 November, p 18) was inflated: it should have read 500 kilograms.

«The USPSTF limited its consideration to studies that underestimate the lifesaving benefit of regular screening and greatly inflate overdiagnosis claims.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

Shooting Once Upon a Time in Mexico with HiDef instead of celluloid cameras apparently allowed for more spontaneous implementations of CGI — Rodriguez claims that he solicited some 330 unallotted F / X shots (many of the niftiest of which Rodriguez deconstructs in the vein of football play - by - plays) and still came in under budget, though I'm not convinced that the sloppiness encouraged by the flexibility of DV (the phrase «we'll fix it in post» is a veritable mantra on HiDef productions) isn't largely responsible for the inflated number.

This serves to «inflate» the number of outstanding academies, she claimed, while deflating the number of «outstanding» - rated local authority maintained schools.

What the graphs don't and can't show, however, is that NHA's claims of high academic performance may be inflated.

There have been claims some schools have inflated their exam performance by putting pupils into «softer» subjects, which have been of less value to individual pupils when they leave school.

While there can't be any doubts of what is being claimed of the new flexible display that's also known as the FlexUPD does look a bit inflated at the moment, the biggest challenge before manufacturers will be to not only come up with what is being claimed but also to do it at an affordable price range.

Apple has vehemently denied conspiring with publishing industry heavyweights to artificially inflate ebook pricing, countering Department of Justice claims that Steve Jobs attempted price fixing with the argument that Apple and the rights holders were in fact strongly opposed throughout negotiations.

If you file a claim after a regional disaster, the cost of labor and materials may be inflated due to high demand.

So if we can not allow piecemeal bankruptcies to clear the system, then what is the alternative except national bankruptcy — which takes the form of meeting all the claims in nominal terms and then hyper - inflating?

Russ Wood Says: JVDeLong wrote — So if we can not allow piecemeal bankruptcies to clear the system, then what is the alternative except national bankruptcy — which takes the form of meeting all the claims in nominal terms and then hyper - inflating?

The primary consumer protection problem areas that have given rise to the States» actions include: (1) unsubstantiated claims of consumer savings; (2) deceptive representations about the length of time necessary to complete a debt relief program; (3) misleading or failing to adequately inform consumers that they will be subject to continued collection efforts, including lawsuits, and that their account balances will increase due to extended nonpayment under the program; (4) deceptive disparagement of consumer credit counseling; (5) deceptive disparagement of bankruptcy as an alternative for debtors; (6) lack of screening and analysis to determine suitability of debt relief programs for individual debtors; (7) the collection of substantial up - front fees so the debt relief company gains even if it fails to perform; (8) lack of transparency and information for consumers as to payment of fees, status of accounts, and communications with creditors; (9) significant delays in active negotiation or engagement with creditors, coupled with prohibitions on direct consumer communications with creditors; and (10), in the case of debt settlement companies, basing savings claims (and settlement fees) not on the original account balance, but on the inflated amount due (including late fees and default rates of interest) at the time of settlement.

By dramatically inflating the nominal prices of various «assets», including those that are now called «toxic assets», many of which were substantially created out of thin air, such as various derivatives, the banks, various financial institutions, and other holders of these assets, have essentially laid claims to a much larger proportion of the existing real wealth.

Beware of claims that puppies are a rare or exclusive colour, as well as inflated prices that reflect this «rarity».

Tom, If you accept that the pauses, previously occurring and the one at the present, are part of long period cycles whose long term average is related to the actual long term trend of temperature (rather than the far steeper slope of rise from just 1980 to 1999), you are admitting that the rise (from whatever cause) has a slope of closer to 0.4 C per century than the super inflated values of 2C to 6C per century claimed by the models and supporters of CAGW.

While one of API's main publicity claims is the oil industry's support for 9.2 million jobs, this inflated figure «includes not only legitimate direct and indirect jobs but more remote «induced» jobs that the API has listed as including everything from day - care workers to valets to rocket scientists.»

The «Global Imprint» analyses suffered from the same shortcomings uncovered in inflated claims that 97 % of the scientists agree about climate change.

Mann's employer this weekend began the shameful task of divesting itself of all inflated claims on university websites and official documentation that Mann was ever a Peace Prize recipient with Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Models; sparse, incomplete data; undisclosed assumptions; broad claims of attribution; and inflated certainty.