Sentence examples for in an overstatement from inspiring English sources
The move is said to have resulted in an overstatement of net income by at least 47 percent and as much as 1,163 percent.
Chief executives and finance directors must sign off a company's annual and quarterly reports; and they must hand back bonuses if fraud results in an overstatement of earnings.The second set, from the NYSE, adds further obligations.
The use of Medicare claims to identify dementia results in an overstatement of the increase in Medicare costs that are due to dementia.
This self-selection decision into technology intervention is a potential source of endogeneity, and it results in an overstatement of the true impact of technology on productivity if not accounted for properly.
Only if the two occupations differ on important characteristics will they be measured as "far away" by this measure, whereas unimportant differences could result in an overstatement of the distance as measured in number 1. Consequently this paper employs the second (importance weights) calculation of distance between occupations.
Omitting user costs results in an overstatement of the net economic benefits of current cropping practices that deplete soils.
Although the sharp drop in March housing starts was greater than expected, Mr. Fine believes it was also, in all likelihood, an overstatement of any softness in housing.
Philip Blair Rice wrote in the foreword to the 1955 Modern Library edition: "To say that aesthetic theory in America reached maturity with The Sense of Beauty is in no way an overstatement.
Justice Elena Kagan said that was in some ways an overstatement.
The great Oscar Robertson has often complained that the 21st-century player knows only how to play in the air, an overstatement borne of some truth.
"ULTIMATE," AS USED IN THE TITLE of "The Ultimate Frozen Dessert Book" by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough William Morroww, $16.95 in paperback), is an overstatement, since there are no ice cream recipes; the authors covered that subject in a previous book.
