They've kept these guys in isolation or solitary confinement, so to speak, for three years. I think they overstated this to begin with. ... They, by their own words, made this a hollow victory, if anything.
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Every day, more than 2,000 children are reported missing to law enforcement, ... However, 1 in 6 six children featured in NCMEC's missing child poster distribution network are recovered because someone recognized the child and called authorities. The power of pictures can't be overstated.
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
The events of the weekend changed market psychology and people are using that as an opportunity to take profits after the huge rally, ... Markets had rallied on the certainty of war and on the belief that it would be quick and with few casualties. But we're seeing that's not the case. The breaking down of the Iraqi army that was talked about in the first few days was clearly overstated.
This is a legitimate concern, but ultimately overstated. There's so much emphasis on maintaining that 20 percent growth rate, ... But even a 10 percent growth in an economic down year is still good. I'd be more concerned if it shrank 10 percent.
The argument that this is going to lead to some immediate gain in electoral power, I think, is vastly overstated.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on the Internet will mean for the book publishing industry have been vastly overstated.
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
I think all of the grim predictions about some sort of schism are probably overstated, ... We certainly lost a few people when we ordained women, but there were great predictions that there would be a real worldwide split in the church, and indeed that's not come to pass.
The overall benefit to the state in keeping manufacturing companies and jobs in Connecticut can not be overstated. Although we have lost manufacturing jobs over time, manufacturing still makes up nearly 20 percent of our gross state product, and each manufacturing job supports many more jobs in support and related industries.
The impact of the aging population on markets, employers and culture cannot be overstated.
While anecdotal evidence suggests that the number of frozen pension plans has increased since 2003, reports of a mass exodus from the defined-benefit pension system appear to be overstated.
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.