Sentence examples for figure is true from inspiring English sources

If this figure is true, it means that mammograms are leading to a large number of unnecessary mastectomies and lumpectomies every year.

"If it's a square, it has four sides", said of an unseen geometric figure, is true, whether the figure is a square, a rectangle or a triangle.

I've come to believe that many of the accounts of him as an unpredictable and volatile figure are true.

If the productivity figures are true, how can they be reconciled with this gale of creative destruction?

Tonight's TV debate is going to have a very high viewing audience, if polling figures are true to their word.

Say that these incredible figures are true, and somewhere between 400,000 and 800,000 Iraqis have died violently over the last three years, most of them military-aged males (MAMs).

"I've always been on the fence about whether waterboarding constituted torture," Mr. Goldberg of the National Review wrote last week, but if the figures are true, "then I think the threshold has been met".

But like everyone else I talked to, the Kennealys, who put their annual cash giving in the six figures, are true believers in what a great education can do.

The same, Lipson figured, was true of marijuana.

How can these figures be true when all metastases start out as microscopic deposits and the physical limitations of imaging methods are well known?

As can be seen in Figure 3, this is true over a large range of differential expression (128-fold).