Sentence examples for optimistic figures from inspiring English sources

The asset-backed securities were based on the overly optimistic figures, which improperly inflated the true collateral behind them, the investors say.

By contrast, discretionary spending is only 7.1% of GDP and is supposed to fall (admittedly according to those optimistic figures) to 5.7% by 2012.This underlines an important point.

The amount of revenue is actually slightly more than was expected in the Myefo but remains less than the more optimistic figures in the Pefo – due to the much more negative view of the economy.

A party that has over the years been the home of a series of optimistic figures in American politics — from Ronald Reagan to Jack Kemp, who died last week, to (at times) George W. Bush — is increasingly coming across as downbeat or angry.

A party and a conservative movement that over the years have been home to a parade of optimistic figures in American politics — like Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp, who died last week — is increasingly worried about coming across as downbeat or angry.

The problem with these kinds of optimistic figures about the enthusiasm for social enterprise is not that they're incorrect – as far as I know, they are correct – but that there's a misalignment between what they mean and they arguments that they're used to make.

And even that's an optimistic figure.

But even if that optimistic figure is attained, additional water would be required to mine the coal, Mr. Weight said.

The BBC had hoped to make £19.6m from the sale of its Oxford Road office in Manchester, but following the property downturn revised this optimistic figure by almost half to £11m.

But that optimistic figure is still a fraction of requirements.There may be more potential in hydro-electricity, which already produces a quarter of India's needs, in renewable forms of energy, and in moderating demand by enhancing energy-efficiency.

Neil Carman of the Lone Star Sierra Club said the release was probably even larger than BP had acknowledged, because the company estimated that more than 98 percent of the pollution was burned off by a flare, an overly optimistic figure in the eyes of many environmental scientists.