Sentence examples for exaggerated figure from inspiring English sources

Girardi said Rodriguez used the numbers as an exaggerated figure for effect.

It said the company issued the exaggerated figure because Mr. Scrushy wanted to reduce Wall Street expectations and the need to inflate profits to meet them.

Although this may be an exaggerated figure, about a third of Sao Paulo's prisoners are inside for non-violent offences involving drugs or theft.

Earlier this year, the Daily Mail blamed a quarter of all London crimes on eastern European crooks, although this turned out to be an exaggerated figure that was later corrected.

It claimed at the time that a wildly exaggerated figure of 200,000 innocent civilians had been mercilessly slaughtered by British barbarians led by Churchill and Sir Arthur Bomber Harrisis.

He kept referring to the proposal as $10.8 billion program -- taking the exaggerated figure cited by House Republicans and adding another fictitious year of budget projection.

You mention "often exaggerated" figures of "Indian atrocities".

Any portrayal of a mental ward runs the risk of turning the inmates into a parade of exaggerated figures defined by their tics.

To some minds, the Bratz, with their outlandishly large heads, doe eyes and comically exaggerated figures are no more injurious to a young girl's self-esteem, than, say, the Little Mermaid.

Manhattan , Inc covering the new money of the 80s, and, in almost sporting fashion, the rise of the exaggerated figures on Wall Street, was, briefly, the hottest spot in New York journalism life.

Led, and often coerced, by overzealous Party officials, the new rural communes reported fake harvests to meet Beijing's demand for record grain output, and the government began to procure grain based on these exaggerated figures.