Sentence examples for overstated at from inspiring English sources

The others appear overstated at best.

When an economy slows sharply, growth is often overstated at first, and later revised down.

The advantages of a diverse parliament cannot be overstated – at least until we get one that more closely resembles the society it purports to represent and serve.

I don't think it's overstated at all, the extent to which Prince is being hailed as a genius and incalculably influential.

He repeated his assertion that Mr. Hussein actively supported Al Qaeda operations in Iraq, an assessment that some intelligence analysts say is overstated at best.

And if the shatteringly broad contrasts in this performance of the "Romeo and Juliet" Suite No. 2 are overstated at times, there are deliciously supple and painterly details as well.

I couldn't tell if Henry's tendency to overstate at times — something Mueller avoids; her Julie is all real bone and sinew — had to do with the blocking, or with Peck and O'Brien's wanting to use him in the "right" way.

For all the talk about the knife, sources involved with the show insist speculation about Simpson's training was overstated — scoffing at a 1994 news service report saying, "Simpson portrays a character skilled at knife combat".

Last summer, Andersen paid $7 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the S.E.C. after it had certified statements that vastly overstated earnings at Waste Management.

The greatest differences in public perception and reality are in Argentina, Brazil and South Africa, where the proportion of migrants was overstated by at least 25 percentage points.

Parmalat collapsed after it was revealed that the company's debt was eight times as much as it had publicly stated and that sales and profit had been overstated for at least a decade.