Sentence examples for fictitious amount from inspiring English sources

A United spokesman said: "We've been reluctantly drawn into this matter and have no wish to enter a war of words, but the £500,000 figure is an entirely fictitious amount based on an incorrect assumption.

Wouldn't I think differently with $5 million or $50 million, the two fictitious amounts they would invest for me?

The accounts "have no relation to reality" because Madoff "pulled the fictitious amounts from thin air" so the income on the victims' statements was "entirely divorced from the uncertainty and risk of actual market trading," Lifland wrote.

By the quarter that ended September 2008, the fictitious debt amounts totaled about $100 million.

He also claims to have "evidence that three French companies in Libya have received contracts for fictitious services" amounting to over €100 million.

Rakoff dismissed 9 of the 11 claims filed by Picard against Wilpon and Katz and limited to $386 million the amount of fictitious profits Picard can pursue from them.

In a civil lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Houston, the S.E.C. contends that Enron was able to increase its reported earnings by engaging in what amounted to fictitious sales of assets to Merrill, then booking the proceeds of those transactions.

20 Briefly, participants have to choose among four decks of cards in 100 trials and win or lose certain amounts of fictitious money.

The lawsuit against Mr. Lee's firm alleges that since December 2002, it received about $52 million from Mr. Madoff's firm -- of that amount, $19.7 million represented "fictitious profits from the Ponzi scheme".

Hence, we are applying a model carrying a tremendous amount of excess, fictitious structure to understand features of physical systems.

Most importantly these scholars had repeatedly shown that, in his work, Tierney had painted what amounted to a fictitious picture of a measles epidemic among the South American Yanomamö people in 1968.