During negotiations, it is part of the game to exaggerate the justice of one's own position and the unreasonableness of the others. |
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As I wrote in this space last month, polls on this issue probably tend to exaggerate support for us. |
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The word crisis is too often used to exaggerate the predicament of a club experiencing hard times. |
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Virgoans, even when suffering from minor illness, likes to exaggerate their troubles. |
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You have not established it by reason of what I have just been putting to you, so do not exaggerate, please. |
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In Taylor House, where all sides concede that appellants will exaggerate, embellish and tell outright lies, his story is pretty tame. |
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Some phrases, called submodifiers, can be used to exaggerate or minimise the difference between things. |
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Kurosawa's, by contrast, exaggerate the theme, casting it in the hyperbolic terms of a dread-inducing and sometimes even apocalyptic horror. |
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A potent feminine signifier, bustles exaggerate and prettify the rear without offering a conspicuous come-on. |
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He pointed out that it was easy to exaggerate the importance of Australian expressions of dissent from Allied plans, and Curtin's messages. |
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You may tend to exaggerate, but if you keep a lid on that, you'll be known for your confidence, generosity and sense of justice, lucky Jupiter. |
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From nearby, use a wide-angle lens to exaggerate the height of sheer rock walls or steep cliffs. |
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Avoid dark colours below a dado rail in a long hallway as this will emphasise the length and exaggerate its proportions. |
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At ground level a wide-angle lens will help exaggerate the perspective of long flower rows. |
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While attempting to create a visually striking performance, Kosky tends to exaggerate these elements, giving it a rather histrionic quality. |
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Anyone having a florid imagination or a tendency to exaggerate is less likely to be a reliable witness than one who is precise and careful. |
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Another problem I have is with people who grossly exaggerate minor ailments just to get extended time off work. |
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Really exaggerate this movement until you can perform it with a slight hop at the start of the turn. |
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The aforementioned objections reflect a broader tendency to exaggerate and overgeneralize the available scientific evidence. |
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He's in constant mobile communication with an unseen editor who, like a devil on his shoulder, exhorts Dave to distort and exaggerate the story. |
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Such drugs as antihistamines and tricyclic antidepressants likely exaggerate this proarrhythmic potential. |
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Having said that, it is important not to exaggerate the popularity of libertarianism, or its political influence. |
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Productivity growth tends to follow and exaggerate the ups and downs of the business cycle. |
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I have produced a teardrop silhouette and put it within shapes to try to exaggerate volume. |
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This is due to the government's incorrigible tendency to downplay the costs and exaggerate the benefits of the deal. |
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People are lazy and they'd rather exaggerate to get what they want than tell the truth. |
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When you slouch or stand with a swayback, you exaggerate your back's natural curves. |
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To describe progress as sluggish would be to exaggerate the slug's capacity for forward motion. |
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Karnad also invents a frame story to exaggerate the literary themes and meanings in the central episode, and it is this frame that gives the play its name. |
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But this year Buffett is deeply unsettled by the complex world of derivatives and the column inches devoted to his dire warning this week do not exaggerate his concern. |
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The impact of the story on Greece and Greeks would be hard to exaggerate. |
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There was, in other words, no effort to sensationalize or exaggerate the terrible event. |
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I'll discuss our tendency to reify categories after we create them and our tendency to exaggerate the differences between the categories that we create. |
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But things inspire you based on your personal experience, and then you exaggerate or incorporate other stories from friends. |
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We may be Augustinians in our theology, but we are all socialized to be Pelagians in our profession, to exaggerate the importance of personal effort and personal worthiness. |
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And in my experience of writing about campaigns, that power trip does exaggerate their narcissism. |
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I do not want to exaggerate matters, I do not wish to paint a totally rosy picture, but there are changes which we must respond to. |
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Therefore, in dealing with the amendments to this report, let us try not to exaggerate and not to go over the top with our demands. |
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Courts by definition exaggerate the distance between litigants, exaggerate lines of hostility and protract issues. |
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The actual letters were altered to exaggerate the writers' symptoms, thus playing up the remedy's far-reaching, miraculous properties. |
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It should be noted that the Anti-Coup movement has been known to exaggerate facts and numbers. |
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Not to exaggerate, but it was the sexiest thing that has ever been on television. |
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As for me, I never exaggerate those things. We are already planning our next trip up to the George. |
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It is possible to exaggerate the danger, for the public is not undiscerning. |
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But while mathematical formalism may camouflage assumptive foolishness, it does not correct its theoretical effects and may exaggerate them, hence the unrealistic result. |
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Some of these signs are abundant hair in a woman's chin, irregularly red eyes, stuttering, unsociable personality, exaggerate greed? |
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We did Yoga and meditated and spoke honestly to each other and didn't exaggerate or use too many superlatives or minimize or awfulize or secretly despise or withhold or lie. |
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It has been developed for customers who love a good espresso, but prefer to not exaggerate with caffeine or don't like decaf coffee. |
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It is too easy, in the absence of convincing arguments and firm data, to inflate fears and exaggerate dangers. |
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It is increasingly concerning that Tory ministers seek to exaggerate the potential benefits of shale and dismiss genuine and legitimate concerns. |
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Nor does Miliband exaggerate when he defines today's choice as a Tory government for the rich or a Labour government for working people. |
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Even though I am pleased that it looks as though this agreement is coming into force, I do not want to exaggerate its importance. |
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In practice, these parties may exaggerate the advantages from digital broadcasting, mixing private and collective benefits. |
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Because of the nature of globalisation it has become so simple to exaggerate, when it concerns Africa. |
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I neither lie nor exaggerate when I tell you that the elements can hear your voice and respect and obey you. |
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A scaffolding firm may exaggerate the amount of scaffolding on site, or the number of men used to put it in place. |
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There are no regulations requiring honesty about benefits, and ads often exaggerate the likelihood of treatment success. |
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They would become the first and best source of hard evidence on terrorist incursion, available for cross-examination and trusted neither to exaggerate nor to dissimulate. |
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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree of fanaticism with which the followers of these anti-religious fundamentalisms fustigate and persecute their adversaries. |
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The CAB's Violence Code stipulates that, while broadcasters cannot exaggerate or exploit situations of aggression, conflict or confrontation, they must also be careful not to sanitize the 'reality of the human condition. |
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They will therefore exaggerate by far the wage gap between agency workers and comparable workers in user enterprises and cannot be taken as an indication for any wage increase that may result from the current Directive. |
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I think one cannot exaggerate the unacceptability of the heavy-handedness and the disrespectful way in which the chair of this committee has dealt with his responsibilities. |
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The welfarists might exaggerate, but it is difficult to entirely discount many of their claims. |
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I would like to draw your attention to the fact that we should not exaggerate the extent of the practical difficulties that unmarried couples or same-sex couples encounter in exercising the right of residence. |
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I enjoy making songs from time to time, but let's not exaggerate. |
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Not only do flip-flops provide little support, they may exaggerate any tendency to pronate. |
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Assuming the Queen is, really, one of us, she will want to do more than replace Caro with the – I hope I do not exaggerate – 9th woman OM, ever, and make more generous reparation to the scorned. |
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As the camera doesn't follow the hero as he moves around the onstage actor must exaggerate his acting and gesticulate to best express the character's feelings and give him some dimension. |
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Only a prude would expect their politicians not to exaggerate. |
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Having followed faithfully in the slipstream of the superpower, Britain is entitled to a share of the glory, but not to exaggerate its own useful but inessential contribution. |
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She's going to completely overdramatize and exaggerate everything,' which I do have a tendency to do. |
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This vicious campaign has targeted policies and stance of my country and strived to exaggerate and distort facts along with tarnishing the image, heritage and values of our people. |
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We must neither exaggerate the difficulty of these problems, nor let ourselves be overwhelmed by the tempest of false doctrines disseminated by bad shepherds. |
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You don't want to exaggerate the differences. |
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I'm sorry to be such a stickler for words on this one, but after the experience with Iraq, there are many around the world, unfortunately, who think we exaggerate, so it is very much to our advantage to understate things. |
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We might fib, exaggerate, misremember or gloss the detail but we do so in service of the unity and coherence of our own story. |
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They were not always rigorously accurate because the artists who drew them tended to exaggerate certain features or to interpret the landscape and the building architecture. |
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Too much disclosure may exaggerate the importance of minor matters, imply a diminution of the actuary's responsibility for the work, or make the report hard to read. |
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It did not help that the first life of Wren, Parentalis, was written by Wren's son, and tended to exaggerate Wren's work over all others. |
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We are, however, careful not to exaggerate the impact we make. |
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Of course, speed and just-in-time requirements vary according to type of good and there is perhaps a tendency to exaggerate the importance of speed in modal choice. |
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There have been some difficulties, but we should not exaggerate them. |
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This helped to exaggerate movements in the currency market. |
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Wearing too large clothes will exaggerate your figure not hide it. |
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Each side has to make the strongest case and exaggerate it. |
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It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Holland in the seventeenth century, as the one country where there was freedom of speculation. |
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Compared to reality, works of art tend to exaggerate the iterance or urgency of a biological issue. |
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Opposition figures and non-governmental organizations may also exaggerate the extent of instability, while taking pains to deny the presence of small arms at their demonstrations. |
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Media coverage of disturbances can also act to exaggerate their importance and incite the crowd behaviour that the media then simultaneously condemn and sensationalize. |
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Meanwhile, Vice-President Al Gore was similarly making the late-night-comedy rounds, poking fun at his woodenness, his pedantry, and his tendency to exaggerate his own achievements. |
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It submits that the authors exaggerate and provide inaccurate statements, including the inaccurate translation of words from the letter under consideration, and produce evidence that has nothing to do with their case. |
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These accounts greatly exaggerate both the severity and the importance of withdrawal symptoms. |
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His consequent rebellion may exaggerate hardships and magnify restrictions, and he may join in such things as protest demonstrations and uncouthness to show his resistance. |
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Mysterious conditions surrounding Amelia's disappearance only add to her legendary status, a legend that Putnam had no need to exaggerate to make it extraordinary. |
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This may well mean that the final victory will be shaped on Canadian soil-for who can exaggerate the importance of this great co-operative effort in the training of men and the forging of an overwhelming air strength. |
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In other words, the budget is all smoke and mirrors, smoke coming from the big blue curtain the government hides behind, the distorting mirrors of the Conservatives' media machine that exaggerate and deform the truth. |
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You think they exaggerate sometimes? You think they embellish things, stretch the truth, play loose with the facts? |
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But if a few stock characters and a contrived peccadillo are what it takes in order to exaggerate and deflate the pretensions of America's future ruling class in such hilarious style, so be it. |
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Faulty recollections, tendencies to exaggerate or underplay events, and inclinations to give answers that appear more 'socially desirable' are several reasons why a respondent may provide a false answer. |
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Overprotective and unaffectionate parents who constantly criticise and exaggerate the dangers of talking to strangers may also be possible influencing factors. |
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The laws have been resisted and challenged by Democrats who argue that they exaggerate the dangers and incidence of voter fraud while impermissibly sacrificing voter access. |
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The position in his histories and the lack of a detailed history for the following century has tended to exaggerate the significance of the battle for later historians. |
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I have met people who exaggerate the differences, because they have not distinguished between differences of morality and differences of belief about facts. |
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But they shouldn't exaggerate, they shouldn't be moralistic. |
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However, very few contemporary accounts of the craft survive, and Evans's tendency to exaggerate its success in his own annals make verification of its performance difficult. |
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Petrarchan sonnets were often used by men to exaggerate the beauty of women who were impossible for them to attain, as in Romeo's situation with Rosaline. |
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He tends to exaggerate when talking about his accomplishments. |
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It's impossible to exaggerate the importance of this discovery. |
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