Sentence examples for likely to overstate from inspiring English sources

Estate agents or landlords are likely to overstate interest in a property to make you sign for it.

"When you're enthusiastic about the opportunity, you're likely to overstate its appeal and vastly underestimate its risk," he says.

In general, the assumption that each drive is an independent event is likely to overstate Brees's odds of throwing a touchdown pass in any given game.

Interpretations that ignore changes in effective lake size and assume that Poaceae percentage is a simple indicator of regional vegetation change are likely to overstate 'dry' episodes and transitions from wet forest to scrub environments.

While survey and hedonic results are not easily compared due to limitations of the survey, both point to similar values for key environmental attributes, though the survey results are likely to overstate actual willingness to pay.

Britons are most likely to overstate the amount of wealth held by the wealthiest in society: they believe that 59% of the total household wealth is held by the top percentile, but Credit Suisse estimates it is 23%.

Pollsters also have a longstanding (and most likely related) tendency to overstate Labour support and understate Tory support – a pattern that has held in every election but one since 1987.

But Monday's report, written by Professor Rebecca Tunstall at the University of York's centre for housing policy, says flaws in the DWP model means that it is likely to have overstated the likely savings.

My feeling is that those concerns are also very likely to be overstated by critics, but I also think the main takeaway from the column ought to be the sheer size of the potential here.

What we can say is that by not considering the problem of regression to the mean, current estimates of the decline in cognitive skill of high ability poor children is likely to be overstated".

Returns are likely to be overstated given that poor performers will drop out of the index (so-called survivorship bias) and that only funds that are initially successful will agree to report their numbers.Furthermore the HFR index is an unweighted composite of all hedge-fund returns, some of which are closed to new investors.