Sentence examples for improperly increase from inspiring English sources

Federal officials are also looking into whether overstatement of HealthSouth's assets was used to improperly increase its Medicare payments.

The new complaint accuses the company of an additional scheme, asserting that WorldCom retained secret reserves that could be used almost as a cookie jar -- tapped whenever the company needed to offset expenses, and thus improperly increase profits.

Ms. Robins asked Justice Gregory Carro to impose a prison sentence against Cecille Villacorta, 52, a former sales associate in Saks's jewelry department, who was convicted in March of third-degree grand larceny and of falsifying business records to improperly increase her commission.

Although just six months ago Mr. Friedman had protested his innocence, yesterday he described several different schemes by which he improperly increased his Medicaid billings.

The lawsuit accuses JPMorgan of improperly increasing cardholders' minimum payments due to 5 percent of balances, from 2 percent, in 2008 and 2009.

Investigators are looking into the possibility that AOL made inflated payments to business partners to get the same money back again in return, improperly increasing its reported revenue and profits in a practice known as round tripping.

In articles on Thursday and Friday in the Communist Party newspaper Granma, Mr. Castro quoted from Mr. L Obradorr's new book, which accuses the Mexican elite of improperly increasing its fortunes from 2000 to 20006, during President Vicente Fox's tenure.

New York State regulators are investigating the business relationships between drugstore companies and medical providers to determine whether the clinics are being used improperly to increase business or steer patients to the pharmacies in which the clinics are located.

Shaping your toenails improperly can increase the chance of getting ingrown toenails.

Slouching and standing improperly can increase the pressure on your back and cause pain.

The likelihood of dumpsters being improperly secured increased during the day due to frequent use by downtown businesses; therefore we sampled dumpsters between 0500 and 0600 hours when no, or minimal, activity occurred.