| For four decades he has quietly been a voice of reason and restraint in a critical world prone to overstatement. |
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| The formality and scale of her attire, her pose, and her lack of affectedness suggest class and gender and also hyperbole and overstatement. |
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| That the mining operations have uplifted the standard of living of the people in that region is not an overstatement. |
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| To call the acting wooden would be overstatement, but it's often stiff and mannered. |
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| A powerful indictment of the system, it errs on the side of cartoonish overstatement once or twice but overall is well worth seeing. |
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| At first glance, such a comment seems like hyperbole, an eulogizing overstatement. |
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| For example, a tax-planning scheme could include two false statements: the over-valuation of property, and the overstatement of expenses. |
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| Journalists, never shy of overstatement, are complicit, and politicians need no encouragement. |
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| Some Member States feel that the Court's findings need to be qualified, particularly as regards the overstatement of agricultural areas. |
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| Dial-up Internet subscribers for prior periods have been restated to correct an overstatement of business dial-up customers. |
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| The overall consequence was an overstatement of both assets and liabilities. |
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| In this respect, to say that something is an Egyptian phenomenon is an overstatement, and as such, it is necessary to first evaluate some of the sectors in Egyptian society. |
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| It is probably not much of an overstatement to say that Arthur Ochs Sulzberger saved The New York Times. |
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| Hyperbole and auxesis are two types of overstatement that have traditionally been regarded as figures of speech belonging to the realms of poetry and rhetoric. |
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| To define this show of support by major corporations for LGBT equality as a seachange would be no overstatement. |
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| Perhaps ascribing a distaste for the Oscar winner and soon-to-be Interstellar star is an overstatement. |
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| To call the Canadian publisher harlequin a monopoly in the romance genre might be an overstatement, but not by much. |
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| The auditors' failure to attend stocktaking and identify the overstatement of stock is evidence of negligence, writes a litigation support partner at Kingston Smith. |
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| To say that all purges are bad is probably an overstatement. |
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| I don't think it's an overstatement to say that obesity is cancerogenic so staying a healthy weight is important. |
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| In its first review, the NRTEE recommended that the Government also report on the measures in an integrated fashion to account for any interaction effects between programs that could result in an overstatement of reductions. |
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| By their second plea, the applicants claim that the Commission's assessment of the gravity of the infringement was vitiated by an overstatement of the infringement's economic impact. |
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| To do so would cause an overstatement of the benefits of risk reduction. |
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| A single overstatement diminishes the whole of your presentation, and a single carefree superlative has the power to destroy the object of your enthusiasm. |
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| An overstatement of additional spending would overstate the impact. |
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| These numbers indicate that the vast majority of unliquidated obligations at the year end were indeed legitimately raised and the risk of overstatement of expenditure appears low. |
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| A typical Wildean overstatement, perhaps, but with enough truth in it to serve notice on parents to be especially sensitive to the problems of their offspring when they reach their teens, if only for the parent's own good. |
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| Perhaps it is an overstatement, but it is food for thought. |
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| It has to strengthen the quality of internal control, and procedures must be simplified to prevent non-compliance with eligibility criteria, the double charging of costs and the overstatement of costs. |
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| The story he gave was something of an overstatement of the facts. |
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| Hence, Marx's influence on antimilitarist doctrine was not surprising, although making Marx accountable for the antimilitarist tradition is a large overstatement. |
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