Sentence examples for rather overstated from inspiring English sources

I find also that Mo Mowlam's part in the Northern Ireland peace process has been rather overstated.

However, as Pufendorf says in rhetorical opposition to him, Hobbes rather overstated the case; for the natural state is actually a state of 'peace' (DJN II.2.7) – albeit an imperfect, unstable, and insecure peace (DJN II.2.12).

Also, when applying earnings yield, make sure you are using normalized earnings (rather than overstated or super-normal earnings)?

And the results are likely to be greatly overstated and hinge on what seem to me to be rather implausible assumptions in which the authors impute the annual accrual of capital gains income from quite poor household data on asset classes combined with the assumption that everyone gets the average rate of return so that no one is lucky, no one is skilled in investing.

The fact that they lack physical assets (or "wealth" as traditionally defined) is by and large an overstated, perceived risk; microfinance repayment rates often hover around 98percentt -- rather remarkable when compared to consumer credit statistics among wealthier people.

An understandable move, Wolf thinks, but overstated, and with unfortunate consequences: "From the 1970s on, the vagina was recast as rather retro, housewifey and passé", whereas the clitoris was "a glamorous, mini-skirt-wearing Gloria Steinem".

Call it overstated understatement.

I kind of overstated it".

Rather, he seems to be working from a set of vague but unshakable assumptions about American politics and culture, and he has built his overstated, unconvincing stories from these assumptions rather than from observation and reflection.

But the risks are overstated, and a complete collapse of the process would be far more dangerous, particularly as the strategic environment shifts in favor of regional forces that seek to undermine, rather than promote peace.

The opposite, overstated, was what was meant.