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These impacts were somewhat exaggerated since the Soviet production system tended to overvalue and overstate output.
Many yachties who have visited Trinidad dwell on the negative and overstate the crime problem, but everything is a function of numbers.
Statisticians say the inflation figures may overstate the speed of price rises.
Oft-cited Census data apparently overstate the number of uninsured because they undercount the number of people covered by Medicaid.
It is impossible to overstate the momentousness of such events, and yet they have fallen into a shadowy disregard, eclipsed by recent history.
The role that field guides have played in ornithology is difficult to overstate.
His banking background means he is careful not to overstate the possibilities from the outset.
It would hardly overstate the case to say that Lee was worried about how this would turn out.
We should not overstate the risk to Scotland, which remains small, but it is there nonetheless.
We should be happy that all the people there found a home through acquihire but not overstate the importance of the shutdown.
They grievously overstate the costs of bringing new drugs to market in hopes of wringing extortionate payments from desperate patients.
It's also easy to overstate the degree to which university presidents ever were opinion leaders.
The backwash from the affair has spooked investors, concerned that more US corporations may have used flattering accounting methods to overstate their historic profitability.
Sometimes we overstate the problem, with the result being that many people have the wrong impression about us as Aboriginal people.
The Government's been unwilling to change the system, instead urging families to overstate their income, or opt for a lump sum, not fortnightly, payment to avoid any debt.
I cannot overstate the importance of my education in my plan to realize success.
You cannot overstate the importance of patience as a young player in order to establish yourself, and that is something Stevie definitely had.
There are changes this year, which should serve as a warning not to overstate year-on-year comparisons.
Retirement demand, estimated in this way, may overstate the need for the industry to recruit new workers.
I find it so easy to overstate my conclusions and make unconscious leaps of faith.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As it was, I had an affection for him which it would not be easy for me to overstate.
While recognising this trait, then, let us not overstate either it or its consequences.
What grates is when Crowder and Dower lionize Ross and overstate the importance of their subject.
Journalists routinely overstate threats or hazards, or fail to put them in proper perspective.
Performance of the valuation does not cause a reasonable person to expect the appraiser to overstate the value of the employer's securities.
Yet it would be easy to overstate the lawlessness of the Panhandle.
All such phrases as these must appear of course to overstate the case.
It is impossible to overstate the pettiness, the cantankerousness and the self-serving use of their proteges by these deities for their own ends.
It tends to overstate poverty rates in the poorer parts of Canada and understate it in the more affluent areas.
When and how we take soil samples is very important for future climate change studies, to make sure we don't overstate how much carbon we can sequester.
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