Sentence examples for big overstatement from inspiring English sources

It's a big overstatement.

Rising land prices in recent years have therefore led to a big overstatement of the level and the growth of investment.

In fact, the biggest acknowledged overstatement -- reducing AOL's cash flow by about 5percentt -- took place in the third quarter of 2000, after shareholders approved the merger but before regulators approved it, when Mr. Case still nominally held the title of AOL's chief executive.

Scheuer, whilst mostly praising the film, felt that its biggest fault was "overstatement", and that it hammered home at points long after they had been made.

He considers the prediction that the airline industry will shrink to half a dozen big carriers as an "overstatement," but he does expect small "marginal" carriers to soon run into more difficulty.

To describe Callaghan's speech as a big vision would be an overstatement.

Brown also weighed in on the Wisconsin recalls, saying that while Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory certainly wasn't a win for the labor movement, to characterize it as a "big defeat" was also an overstatement.

"If nothing changes, there will be no lions left on the planet by 2020," asserts Dereck Joubert, who heads National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative.That may be an overstatement.

The Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal criminal investigation into accounting practices at Tesco, which led to a £263m profit overstatement at the UK's biggest retailer.

I don't think it's an overstatement to say that being a woman in a big city is almost like living under a permanent curfew.

While the local residents refer to the lake with a bit of overstatement, calling it the "Bavarian sea" (Lake George in upstate New York is about a third bigger), there is little Riviera-style glamour.