Sentence examples for first misstatement from inspiring English sources

It was not the president's first misstatement when it comes to the Nazi camps.

In a second debate misstatement cited by the Bush campaign, Mr. Gore said Sarasota High School in Florida was overcrowded.

The S.E.C. sued WorldCom on fraud accusations in June, one day after the company first disclosed its financial misstatements.

Adrian Bailey told BBC Radio 5 Live that Tesco executives could be asked to explain its £250m misstatement of first-half profits which wiped £2bn off its stock market value.

"It's not the first time I made a misstatement that was mangled up, and it won't be the last," said Obama, with refreshing candor.

The first and most troubling are misstatements from official sources — i.e., Garcetti's tweet.

Misstatements can "be the first step to fraud," Choi had added.

Ryan's statement consists of two parts; the first is gross understatement, the second gross misstatement.

A New Orleans judge ruled last year that the lawsuit couldn't proceed as a class action (where a few people sue on behalf of a larger group they claim to represent) unless the plaintiffs could first show that the company's alleged misstatements had inflated the company's stock price.

I'm supposed to be writing about Hank Paulson's "rescue" plan, or the wisdom of sending more troops to Afghanistan, or the first presidential debate, or fact-checking the misstatements of the candidates.

Thus, courts interpreted Rule 10b-5 as permitting suit by a secondary market purchaser or seller against a non-transacting corporate defendant for misstatements made by the corporation's agent, assuming (at first, at least) that the plaintiff actually relied upon those misstatements in entering into the secondary market transaction.