Sentences with phrase «with inflated numbers»

The next - generation had a lot to do with the inflated number, as hardware sales were listed at $ 1.3 billion for the month, a 58 % increase year - over-year.

Not exact matches

When we helped a particular company with their pricing strategy before their IPO, we discovered a disastrous mistake - they had been mistakingly inflating their MRR numbers by just over 15 % by not taking into account certain lifetime discounts.

It concluded that while Valeant (VRX.TO) had probably not been artificially inflating its sales numbers, its relationship with the specialty pharmacy firm Philidor RX Services «may well cause Valeant to collapse,» taking its share price to zero.

Nope, the only way to deal with a number this large is to inflate it away.

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.

Can't disagree with you on the numbers (if the offer even exists) probably being inflated.

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

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.

If your hotel books babysitting for you the prices may seem very high — or at least inflated — with restrictions on the number of children and hours booked.

New York City is investigating allegations that Covenant House, the largest local provider of shelter to homeless teenagers and young adults, has been inflating the number of people it serves and has not been complying with the terms of its contracts with the city.

The annual number of CRT and CRT payments per child between the ages of three to five years of age were estimated with a zero - inflated negative binomial regression and a hurdle model, respectively.

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.

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.

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.»

In addition to under - paying and overloading uncertified teachers with huge student case loads, K12 Inc inflated enrollment numbers by counting attendance merely by the number of students who logged in rather than the amount of time they spent online.

As to your point about using inflated numbers an a resume, I agree with you; not very commendable.

The Asahi newspaper says the Japanese automaker falsified fuel economy figures on three additional models, while the Yomiuri newspaper says there are more than ten models with inflated fuel economy numbers.

The previous C63 engine output an astonishing 451 horsepower and 443 lb - ft of torque, these numbers are expected to inflate for the 2015 C63 AMG ® along with the car's fuel economy numbers.

Amazon has laid out five arbitration demands in a complaint filed with the American Arbitration Association (obtained by TechCrunch, see below), accusing the involved parties of offering services to boost the number of pages read in books, fraudulent customer reviews, creating fake user accounts to download e-books and inflate the numbers and other schemes to boost the amount of royalties authors and publishers were able to pull from Amazon's self - publishing platform.

The Department of Education admitted that it had initially inflated student loan repayment rates, with actual numbers showing that at least half of students at more than 1,000 schools defaulted or failed to pay down their debt by even $ 1 within seven years.

However, the price of open - ended funds can not be inflated by investor demand the way they can with a stock or other security that trades in a secondary market, because, as with the namesake they bear, open - ended funds theoretically have no limit on the number of shares that can be issued.

In it, Dauphiné and Cooper use some remarkably creative accounting, beginning with an unsubstantiated estimate of unowned cats, to which they add an inflated number of owned cats that spend time outdoors.

Just as Qatar Airways expands its offering to Australia, American Airlines inflates the number of miles you need to get from Europe to Australia with any degree of comfort.

But the credibility problem worsens when that person takes on the appearance of trying to inflate the number of sources for the irrelevant material, with a pair of «corroborations» where one of them only cites the identical original source while the other only opens up a Pandora's Box about the entire situation surrounding the — let me emphasize — irrelevant material.

But this number is likely inflated, according to economist Robyn Allan, who estimates that only 10 per cent of the crude actually faces the discount because producers use vertical integration with refineries, upgrading, long - term shipment contracts for pipelines and the futures market.

As we fill our vehicles with gasoline and watch the cost numbers whirl with artificially inflated prices, we might ponder, just why is it that, by refusing permits, our government did not allow us to drill for oil off the coast of Virginia?

These distortions inflate and obscure the readings, in that some of the heat flux and temperature changes they record gradually comes more and more to resemble those of the «urban island», and less and less resemble the «true» numbers that would be obtained with better siting.

There is little value in bartering or playing with the numbers while you are quoting your services to your client; it signals that your prices are arbitrary and inflated.

The app, called «thisisyourdigitallife,» was downloaded roughly 270,000 times, but since Facebook's app policies at the time allowed for developers to scrape data from users who downloaded the app as well as data from their friends, that number of people who it collected data on inflated to the tens of millions, since people may be friends with hundreds or thousands of people on Facebook.

The number is no surprise given the shortage of add - in cards throughout the year along with inflated prices customers faced with cards they actually managed to find on the market.

DxOMark controversy is back in the news this week, but the problem with the camera rating scores isn't as simple as manufacturers «buying» inflated numbers.

Lying about job titles, dates of employment, awards, or inflating statistics, financial figures, or numbers of employees supervised will definitely catch up with you in the end.

If you're inflating your numbers and making unrealistic assumptions when calculating if a property will be profitable, you're going to end up with thin margins.