The company, backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, revised inflated assertions about its advanced reactor design after growing concerns prompted an MIT review.
Bolton clashed with others on a number of fronts, including policy toward Iran and North Korea, and his attempts in speeches and congressional testimony to make what intelligence officials regarded as inflated assertions about Cuba and Syria, among others.
Making obviously inflated and unrealistic assertions is hardly likely to convince anyone who has serious questions.
Nothing inflated in that statement.
'We now have 80,000, we now have 100,000, we now have 120,000.' " Mr. Powell's assertion that the Pentagon inflated the number of competent Iraqi security forces is backed up by Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former commander of ground troops in Iraq, and L. Paul Bremer III, the top civilian administrator until an Iraqi government took over in June 2004.
Ms. Hearst has spent the last 10 years living it down, and asserts that the figure was inflated, based on dresses she liked but didn't actually buy and vacations she didn't actually pay for, an assertion that has some merit given her mother's home in the Hamptons and regular trips to Hearst Castle in California.
It was about a year ago that prosecutors first summoned Mr. Georgiou, following the assertions by Ms. Georganta that Elstat had inflated the deficit beyond the 12.4 percent figure.
Assertions that American counterinsurgency could secure Afghanistan and improve life for most Afghans were "grossly inflated" at the outset of the war, Barno told The Huffington Post.
Seed: smooth, collar inflated.
Expectations are commonly inflated.
