Sentence examples for bogus figures from inspiring English sources

Either by intention or mistake, Thatcher had published bogus figures.

Indeed, international investment banks were showering Nacional with plaudits just months before its demise.Many other banks publish similarly bogus figures.

The problem is the supposedly independent report the government is justifying its actions on is full of bogus figures.

He also said the idea of paying members of the Taliban to change sides would not work and only bogus figures would come forward.

Bogus figures don't usually bother people, he says, only surfacing as an issue when the statistics become important, as in the Sept. 11 attacks.

At the height of the financial crisis, regulators say, the big British bank reported bogus figures that in some cases had influenced a benchmark for student loans, credit cards and mortgages.

Geoff Martin, London convenor of the union, said: "It's a wholly bogus figure, these are jobs that have switched from the statutory sector into the voluntary sector".

Even after Trump (and Sean Hannity, of Fox News) fell victim to a joke — a parody news story "reporting" that two hundred and fifty thousand Syrian refugees would be settled on U.S. Indian reservations — he continued to repeat the bogus figure for months.

"Why can't anybody admit that you've got a group of people putting out a bogus figure here?" he charged.

The rate-rigging scandal came into focus this summer after Barclays struck a $450 million settlement with authorities over accusations that it reported bogus Libor figures.

Time Warner executives said they would have had no choice but to pass on the costs to their customers, raising monthly cable bills by $1. Patricia Matson, the senior vice president of communications for ABC called the speculative $1 increase "another bogus Time Warner figure".