Sentence examples for fictitious demand from inspiring English sources

This fictitious demand drove up housing prices for those who purchased homes to actually live in.

"Here was this fictitious company demanding to be paid".

It also upheld the ability of Irving H. Picard, the trustee, to declare investors like the Mets' owners net winners and demand that they return fictitious profits, money that Madoff stole from so-called net losers in his Ponzi scheme.

Keynesian closure can be a better option because private investment is an exogenous variable and there are no fictitious booms after altering other final demand components (Partridge and Rickman 1998).

New charges would be another blow to Wilpon and Katz, who are trying to sell a minority stake in the Mets to cope with Picard's demand that they return $300 million in "fictitious profits" and pay $700 million more, in part because they ignored warnings that Madoff was engaged in a possible fraud.

In addition, the safety margin of eroded elbows against seismic loading was discussed by comparing the fictitious stress of elbows with the allowable stress limit demanded by the design code.

Richard Nixon and his henchmen once smeared Arthur Burns, the Fed chairman, by planting a fictitious story in the press, insinuating that Burns was simultaneously demanding a huge pay rise for himself and a pay freeze for other Americans.

In changing its view of the bonds, Moody's said it was looking at the trustee's demands for $300 million from the Mets' owners in "fictitious profits" — their suspected net gains in Madoff investment accounts — and $700 million more for what the trustee said was their willful ignorance of the Ponzi scheme.

"A year or so ago, three seniors officials were convicted - a rare occurrence - for demanding $1m to take the Japanese company Toshiba off a fictitious blacklist, which was preventing the company bidding for a contract," Mr Roxburgh recalls.

For this reason, it has been suggested that what Poe demands is true in Eureka is not actually about this universe, but a parallel fictitious one Poe creates.

Mr. Knight has written seven books since 2002, including a memoir in which he describes his disillusionment with orthodox Islam; a novel, "The Taqwacores," about a fictitious underground of Muslim punk rockers; and another, "Osama Van Halen" (2009), about punks who kidnap Matt Damon and demand more favorable depictions of Muslims in the movies.