Sentences with phrase «inflated numbers in»

Finding inflated numbers in fringe benefits, overtime, the Safety Net program and risk retention, I knew we could cut spending, fund services and not raise taxes.

Mostly elderly women who live alone die and inflate the numbers in SA, while in cold Sweden middle aged drunk males die outside in the snow.

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The share of those between the ages of 25 and 34 who were employed in September was 75 % — the same as September of last year and below levels seen before the housing bubble started inflating job numbers.

Some sites will publish almost any comment to inflate their comment numbers, when in fact many of the comments are from people who are using blog comments for link building to their own websites.

The lackluster performance has revealed a hard truth about the quality of investments made during the peak years: A large number of inexperienced funds bought at inflated prices and settled for taking minority stakes, which left them little room to maneuver when growth slowed in markets like China and India.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

... This set of statistics may even be an underestimate of the direction of travel as... Catholic schools and colleges often feel under pressure to demonstrate theirCatholicity and can inflate actual numbers in their «self - declaration» of Catholic staff and pupils.»

Adam, to suggest your SUPER inflated numbers (most were killed due to conditionso f war, including by their own governments failure to to give two squirts of piss about them and using then as human shields) somehow makes my country's actions in the war on terror equivalent to terrorism itself is beyond offensive to me.

The teacher blows the whistle and everyone jumps in the pool and starts dog paddling during the tread water portion of the test and as you are keeping yourself afloat you look around and see a large number of students wearing inflated water wings and just napping as they float through the exam.

Palermo pulled off similar s *** in the pastore deal... they overrated their own player... spoke about interest from number of clubs and ended up selling him at a HUGELY inflated price And paying 40mil euros for a young player who scored 17 goals in a league where even gervinho is considered a star is beyond ridiculous.

Just like McGregor now, Hillary Clinton's odds skyrocketed in the final weeks and days before November 8th thanks to an influx of public betting, which created great value for bettors to go against the grain and take a shot on Trump at an inflated number.

It is also possible that his numbers are inflated because he only runs short to intermediate routes, which are favored both by Tannehill, and the offensive scheme that he plays in.

Given the scarity of good striker and inflated price of the market, the number of attacking players in our team and most importantly knowing our manager, he won't spend big on a striker.

If we start this season without either extending Sanchez's contract or selling and replacing him with a SUITABLE alternative (S) it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... if nothing is resolved and we lose him for free, then try to find a replacement in the much inflated marketplace, this would be typical of the half - baked decision - making that has plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams that don't develop or recruit enough talented young players tend to lose the plot from an organizational standpoint

Since a majority of public bets will take the favorite in most games, bettors looking to take the underdog can simply wait until the line has been artificially inflated and place their wager at a more favorable number.

If Luiz hadn't sold for a ridiculously inflated amount then you'd be in a situation where they had a worse in and out number than us.

If you're interested in taking the under, it's probably better to wait until the number is artificially inflated.

Going viral is great and creating content that transcends our fan base will inflate the numbers, but I'm more interested in finding new ways to engage with fans and make them feel closer to the club.

For his part, Latimer has countered that Astorino has inflated job numbers in Westchester.

In fact, that number is inflated by including 6,900 town - only special districts — essentially lines on a map that lack separate taxing authority.

Asked for comment, Mollie Fullington, a spokesperson for Paul Massey, Malliotakis» opponent in the Republican primary race, emailed, «It is unfortunate the Assemblywoman feels the need to inflate her numbers because she lacks the relevant experience to be Mayor of New York.»

Latimer, who just released his own polling data showing the race in a statistical dead heat, is talking about private sector jobs and accusing Astorino of inflating the numbers by more than double during his two terms as county executive.

The number may also reflect ESD efforts to inflate START - UP's metrics — which were hinted at in 2015, when an ESD official said the organization may begin counting

The state this year reduced the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated, but state education officials said the questions were «slightly more difficult» than those used in past years.

According to Latimer, Astorino has inflated the county's finances and job growth during his eight years in office, advertising a number that is more than double what Latimer believes it should be.

«They've inflated the numbers and when you ask them, where's their source of the information as to how many non domicile people, it turns out, it's in an article in a Sunday newspaper.

One, some manufacturers will choose to include knife covers in this count, which will effectively inflate the number of pieces.

The methodological flaws led to an inflated number of trees estimated in a pre-European Sierra Nevada forest, Levine and colleagues argue.

For instance, not excluding those who might be thin because of a chronic illness may have artificially inflated the number of deaths in the underweight group.

When the team flooded the cage with low - level, ambient, natural noise, both the non-inflating and the inflating robots were hunted in equal numbers.

Reviews on Fling are often critical of this policing because it inflates the number of interactions happening on the site and fools some people into believing they've made a connection that is, in actuality, false.

People (or theoretically the service itself) inflating the number of members when these people are either not real or not really interested in the service.

I also like how they disable any profile that has not been active in the last 4 months (I wish all online dating sites did this instead of inflating their membership numbers by holding.

Also check out the user profiles if they contain gibberish characters or nonsensical phrases in the descriptions, these are bogus profiles posted on the site to artificially inflate the number.

Overall, GLAAD tallied 28 total LGBTQ characters from the mainstream films, which is down from 70 in 2016 (a number inflated by a musical number in the comedy «Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping») and 47 in 2015.

So here are my five picks (in alphabetical order) and a couple more in case the number inflates:

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.

As critics contend, the state's aggregate test - score improvements on the 4th - grade FCAT reading exam — and likely on the NAEP exam as well — are inflated by the change in the number of students who were retained in 3rd grade in accordance with the state's new test - based promotion policy.

Still, NCLB gave states significant leeway in calculating graduate rates, and for years, the states used widely differing approaches, often with an eye towards inflating their numbers.

There is ample precedent for shortcut taking in public school testing: When No Child Left Behind required schools to assess all students in math and reading, many states made tests easier in order to inflate proficiency numbers.

The Boston Teachers Union is already denying that there are so many applications, with a spokesman saying «They have inflated other numbers in the past.»

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The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.

Many sites don't make that information available, and those that do often give inflated or inaccurate numbers (their total counts often include expired and inactive scholarships, as well as single scholarships tagged in multiple categories).

While recent gains in the national graduation rates are real, there are some examples of states and districts inflating their numbers, and the GradNation campaign has highlighted those states and districts in previous updates to the nation.

A number of schools have been found guilty of fraudulently inflating attendance figures in order to rake in state and local funding that they otherwise would not have been entitled to.

In an increasingly virtual, convenience - driven, safety - conscious and arguably desinsidtised world, people will alway search for authentic, intense and meaningful experiences - the dominance of fast food doesn't diminish the number of people who care about their cooking and eating experience, the ányplace, anywhere» availability of digital music streams and downloads has made vinyl record sales thrive and the likes of Singer, Eagle E-types, Morgan are making hay from established OEMs not being able or willing to deliver the full flavour experience (except for a tiny number of limited edition Porsches that no one can buy at list price anyway and get sold at inflated collector prices as a result.

I'll try to make that distinction crystal clear in the instructions for next year's survey, since any such duplicates will artificially inflate the total number of indie titles reported.

These accounts worked together to artificially inflate the number of ebooks downloaded, thus raising the ranking of each ebook in Amazon's charts.

His numbers are all inflated, and his company hasn't broken even except for maybe 4 times in the last 6 years of its existence.