Sentence examples for inflated authority from inspiring English sources

The world we live in is a surreal, incomprehensible collage of inflated authority and over-bearing bureaucracy which cannot differentiate between schoolboy humour and a death threat.

Metropolitan's financial results in 2002 were inflated, the authorities said, by sham real estate transactions known internally as "rabbits" because they were pulled out of a hat.

Faced with the mountain of debt on which its bubble economy had been inflated, the authorities could have taken the quick route: swiftly writing off bad loans and easing the pain with loose monetary and fiscal policy.

Even the recent population census is disputed: the opposition says the authorities inflated results in pro-government areas, in order to prepare to justify a forthcoming increase in pro-government voters there.

Mr. Sapir contends in a lawsuit that the estimated bill for renovations has more than tripled to $156 million as the authority has inflated bills and shifted some of its own costs to his account.

Occasionally, we encounter an anecdote about Ammonius, whom Olympiodorus clearly revered and whom he invokes frequently to inflate his own authority.

The contractors even submitted inflated invoices to the local authority for work carried out to cover the costs of the bribes they were paying council officials.

Federal authorities said he inflated revenue and earnings to prop up MCSi's stock price at a time when the company was failing after years of having grown through acquisitions.

The reports show "the extent to which accusations of abuses are being inflated, particularly by the Russian authorities, in the parallel propaganda war".

And when losses mounted, the authorities say, the traders "inflated the value" of their positions to mask their losses.

But authorities said the tax had inflated food prices and put Danish jobs at risk.