Sentence examples for inflated amounts from inspiring English sources

At the next City Hall meeting, the directors general and contractors were told that ORHA's "accountants" had consulted the Aerial Photography Department, which confirmed that the volume of trash in the landfills didn't match the inflated amounts reported.

However, advocates for the poor say there have been instances in other boroughs where unscrupulous lenders have arranged F.H.A. mortgages for inflated amounts, then profited when the buyers of those properties defaulted.

The fraudulently inflated amounts, which Mr. Khan referred to as "overhead," would be paid out, and the subcontractors would kick back a portion of the payments to Mr. Khan and other associates involved in the scheme, prosecutors said.

Considering the damage the compound has been wreaking via our drinking water, there is no doubt that in inflated amounts fluoride would immediately freeze dry the leak.

Last year Fleming, an American grocery chain, got into trouble after it first inflated the amounts it received from suppliers and then misled its auditors.

He counted promised pledges as donations and inflated the amount of at least one of those pledges to obtain a $1.2 million loan, prosecutors said.

To justify raising tow contract fees, the Escondido police dept has also inflated the amount of labor involved in a tow.

The Federal Trade Commission has settled a lawsuit against Uber for $20 million, the result of a federal complaint that says the ride-hailing startup inflated the amount of money potential drivers could make as drivers for the ride-hailing service.

F1 Health & Fitness F5 FASHION B11 ARTS E1-10 SPORTS D1-7 BUSINESS DAY C1-20 United Way's Accounting Raises Questions for Donors Executives said some United Way chapters counted contributions in ways that inflate the amounts reported making it seem as if expenses consume a smaller part of donations.

Investments in the scheme were boosted by members by taking out loans with Barclays and SG Hambros banks which served no discernable purpose but to inflate the amounts which could be offset against tax.

The passenger list for the train was a mere four people: Scott himself, his wife, F. N. Holman, and Charles E. Van Loan, a writer for the Los Angeles Examiner (and one who was adept at helping Scotty create his "miner" persona, inflating the amounts Scotty really spent while "promoting" his "mine").