| It's possible that these writers have a different syntactic frame for the verb understate. |
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| To label as combative this epic standoff from this morning's show would be to understate the man's pugilistic expertise. |
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| Theories of neo-colonialism and cultural imperialism often understate the complexity and multifariousness of postcolonial cultural travellings. |
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| To say that fantasy movies have not been a big draw at the box office is to understate the matter. |
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| If the consumer price index sometimes overstates inflation, as some have argued, that could understate progress against poverty. |
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| These DPV figures are ballpark measurements that understate the resources behind the major-party candidates. |
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| Never one to underestimate or understate her own judgements, she feels that China is communist and calls a red a red. |
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| It is increasingly common for the rich to understate the value of gifts in order to avoid paying taxes on property passed on to heirs. |
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| These figures understate the true scale of loss, which is believed to be double or more than the recorded figures. |
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| To say she was disturbed by the results would be to understate her reaction. |
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| Our imputations are therefore likely to understate probable true values rather than to overstate them. |
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| After 1992 – which like 1970, and now 2015 – saw the polls understate Conservative strength, another adjustment was introduced. |
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| However, these were handled in such a way as to visually understate the severity of the injury likely to be suffered in real life. |
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| This clever device is not without problems, but the authors reckon it may understate the benefits of EU membership. |
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| This implies that some of the above figures actually understate the staff portion of programme expenditures. |
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| Similarly the value of autonomy in humanities scholarship may lead humanists to understate their contribution to student research. |
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| Plant managers often willfully understate actual capacity so as to be given easily fulfillable production targets. |
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| As a result, this estimate will likely understate the compliance costs to the refining industry. |
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| To say this book caused a sensation is to understate its impact. |
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| We cannot allow this problem to be sidelined or understate its importance for society. |
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| I've heard your review of the statements here and I think, I think that they tend to understate the panic that we felt. |
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| Let me add in concluding that we cannot understate the importance of property rights in the maintenance of a free society. |
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| Yet such tempered remarks may understate the significance of the challenge awaiting Krueger. |
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| I do not understate the complexity and sensitivity of achieving such a global agreement. |
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| However, these figures actually understate the true market valuations of both businesses, because of the enormous number of in-the-money and unexercised options out there. |
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| This exercise could help the organization determine whether the survey findings understate the impact of language barriers-in other words, whether people with language barriers are under-represented in the final sample pool. |
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| These omissions understate the total number of amendments recorded into the Department's enterprise resource management system and the amount spent for the procurement of goods, services and construction. |
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| But nor would it have been responsible to deliberately understate my sense of where we can in fact get to a large range of issues just because some have not yet got to that level on some others. |
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| If we were only to deduct the smaller set-off amount of child support for the payor spouse in a shared custody situation, that would misrepresent and understate the payor parent's contribution to child support. |
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| The fact that the notional funding levels used in these plans understate the true, ultimate resource allocation contributes to this lack of precision. |
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| These findings understate the role of immigration, since there are many current ICT workers, who are now citizens, but who obtained some or all of their ICT training prior to emigrating to Canada. |
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| It goes without saying that persons who are dependent on alcohol will hardly volunteer the real facts of their problematic condition and will, if anything, tend to understate. |
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| Emile Hokayem, an analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says there is a tendency in the Gulf to overstate Iran's role and a tendency in the west to understate it. |
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| To the extent that they are successful in booking transfer prices that overstate or understate the true economic value of the transaction, GDP will be misstated. |
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| These assumptions could well be conservative and lead the Model to understate the prevalence and cost of diabetes in the future, rather than to overstate it. |
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| Scientists are not known for pessimism about the likely effects of their discoveries, and commercial enterprises rarely understate the possible benefits of their proprietary knowledge. |
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| There are 40 operating rooms at Hospital A, and to describe the central pre-op area as a veritable beehive is to grossly understate it. |
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| Thus, it should be borne in mind that the total amounts for the different variables presented in this report likely understate the actual totals for those variables. |
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| Seems that many states sharply understate their high school dropout rates. |
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