Sentence examples for phony figures from inspiring English sources
Greece got away with phony figures for years until the crisis exploded.
"I had a lot of phony figures on what would happen when the rockets kicked in when the unicycle hit thirty-five miles an hour," Penn told us at lunch that day at Sylvia's.
There is the time that President Bush used phony figures to defend his tax cut in his first State of the Union address because the political team -- in particular Karl Rove -- had made an end run around Treasury economists, refusing to vet their calculations with experts.
–DAVID GEFFEN I don't want you to put any phony figures in there because I'll rip them down.
The Labour leader accused the prime minister of using "phony" figures over the level of spending on UK flood defences.
More disturbing than propagating propaganda (phony figures, for example, showing most whites are killed by blacks) is his denial that words have consequences.
Then the phony fuel-economy figures began to backfire on the car companies.First to complain, surprisingly, were disgruntled owners of that very model of environmental rectitude, the Toyota Prius.
And, if real and recurring expenses don't belong in the calculation of earnings, where in the world do they belong?" Mr. Buffett also criticized analysts who "play their part in this charade, too, parroting the phony, compensation-ignoring 'earnings' figures fed them by managements".
Because the words are those of adults looking back ("He amused us with his little figures"), they sound phony in squeaky voices, not to mention in accentless English, an unlikely tongue for the children of Mexico City, where Orozco's family moved when he was 5. Orozco wrote a lyrical autobiography, and the documentary hews closely to its version of events.
