Sentence examples for oversold a from inspiring English sources

Quite possibly, the deal will turn out to have been oversold a bit.

Instead, it is more likely that makers of netbooks oversold a product that underperformed.

To dig himself in deeper: Mark Kirk, the Senate candidate who oversold a Naval award he had received.

Opponents grumble that Mr Modi's promises are being oversold, a cult of personality is rising, even that portions of the press have been bought.

Cancellation of the scheme to develop the role of care practitioner has caused dismay in the struggling social care sector, where there was already widespread anger that the chancellor had greatly oversold a supposed £3.5bn package of help for the sector that he unveiled in the review.

In 1991, Mr. Combs and nine other promoters oversold a celebrity basketball game featuring rap artists at City College, and the resulting stampede for seats left nine young people dead.

Mr. Genocchio, an art lecturer at Sydney University and a member of the offshore faculty of Boston University, wrote, after a two-hour preview of the paintings, that "the exhibition has been a trifle oversold by a barrage of pre-publicity and breathless claims".

A number of sectors were considered oversold on a technical basis — suggesting a buying opportunity.

Recycling "is good civic behavior," said Samantha MacBride, an assistant professor of public affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York, but it's oversold as a panacea to a whole host of environmental ills, from overflowing landfills to global warming.

The program was "oversold as a silver bullet," said Edward Delgado, a former executive with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.

At present, there is a growing consensus that the concept of degradable plastics has been oversold as a solution to the waste disposal problem, primarily because a large portion of degradable plastics will end up in landfills where breakdown tends to be very slow.