understate造句

understate the number of deaths

These figures may understate actual price declines.

Factory managers understate their potential output.

understate one's losses,eg of money,troops

The inflation numbers probably understate the degree of overheating.

The government chooses deliberately to understate the increase in prices.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics uses geometric weighting and hedonics to understate inflation.

It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.

She refuses on principle to understate her income for taxation purposes.

To call this a security hole is to understate the point woefully.

All of which suggests that Wall Street's optimists may understate the impact of weaker home prices on spending.

The data on operational expenses (USD 200 million) seems to understate the true costs, given the size of the portal.

But that is to understate the problem, because what is really going on here is a clash of cultures.

The result is that official statistics overstate the true size of America's and others' deficit with China, while Chinese statistics understate its surplus.

But it paints a grim picture of the scale of protecting the 1,400-mile-long reef, and may severely understate the cost of doing so.

We may be looking at long-term, double-digit unemployment with official unemployment figures that understate the extent of the problem.

In China, however, even this would understate the true stimulus, because some public-infrastructure investment will be done by state-owned firms or local governments and financed by Banks.

The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) report on the conditions of children left behind by parents working away from home paints a grim picture that we cannot afford to understate.

Standard &Poor’s, a rating agency, reckons that dividends in America could fall by about a quarter this year—the steepest drop since 1938. Even this may understate the decline.