Sentence examples for designed to inflate from inspiring English sources

There can't be many people at once who live in a celebrity environment so perfectly designed to inflate self-love.

"They need to be made illegal," Mr. Tauzin said, "particularly practices like round-trip trades, practices that were designed to inflate volume in a fraudulent way".

The Big Board panel determined that he had executed a trade that was designed to inflate the price of a stock he already held.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said today that two companies that sold electricity to power-plagued California might have engaged in actions designed to inflate prices there, potentially earning $10.8 million in excessive profits.

But the inquiries will almost certainly reveal similar behavior at other trading companies, a handful of which have already admitted to submitting false data to publications that produce indexes and to engaging in fake trades designed to inflate trading revenue and volume, lawyers said.

The plaintiffs, who bought Halliburton stock from 1999 to 2001, said the company had made false statements designed to inflate its stock price on three topics: its financial exposure to asbestos claims, how much it stood to make from its engineering and construction business, and the expected benefits of a merger with Dresser Industries.

In order to overcome this limited sensing functionality or limited spatial coverage, the catheter was designed to be inflated like a balloon as shown in Fig. 1.

Majoor and O'Brien explain that the Hindenburg was designed to be inflated with helium, an inert, incombustible gas, but that the American government, which controlled the world's largest supply, would not sell it to the Germans.

The cuff is designed to be fully inflated when used.

"Contrary to the refrain in the press, while I was at Enron I was not aware of any financing arrangements designed to conceal liabilities or inflate profitability," he said.

The suit further charges that these purchases were made at "specified escalating price levels which were designed to push up and inflate the price of the class security to increasingly higher levels".