Hyping your company is not just a natural tendency to exaggerate your size and importance.
We tend to exaggerate our differences and become extremely used to our own set of biases.
The importance of wine to this nation of four million is hard to exaggerate.
The other is to exaggerate the place of world affairs in their own job.
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Sceptics point out that each mistake has tended to exaggerate the extent of climate change.
As in policy, so in personality: the resemblance between the two countries is easy to exaggerate.
It is hard to exaggerate how far ahead of the American government Silicon Valley has moved.
It is easy to exaggerate the degree to which China's economy is dependent upon external trade.
Despite these similarities in both their overall strategies and specific policies, the parties will seek to exaggerate the differences.
On the other hand, it is possible to exaggerate just how quickly the melting pot is cooking this stew.
First, it is in the interest of both parties to exaggerate the benefits.
"He was intimidated by congressional isolationists, whose strength he tended to exaggerate, and was loath to challenge them, " Olson writes.
Stock valuations in the whole health care sector fluctuate a lot, and biotech stocks tend to exaggerate those price movements.
Still, it's hard to exaggerate the effect that Thor and a growing band of capitalists have had on their countryfolk.
Cartoonists love to exaggerate the features of their favorite subjects and John Edwards, Democrat John Kerry's running mate, is no exception.
The report by the university in Milan takes aim at what it says is a tendency to exaggerate the mafia's wealth.
Acknowledging this, Mahathir stroked his chin and smilingly said that he did not mean to exaggerate the importance of the issue.
Someone subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumour might easily be biased, consciously or unconsciously, to exaggerate the former and misstate the latter.
Thus again, this approach is likely to exaggerate the differences among states.
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And, yes, even star athletes have been known to exaggerate the facts.
It would be unfair to these two books to exaggerate their differences.
One does not need to exaggerate the unity of the Civil Rights Movement to note that it was substantially more ideologically and politically cohesive.
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It is hard to exaggerate China's weight in the world economy.
Mr Tolle's impact on this hidebound institution is hard to exaggerate.
Of course, people asked such questions tend to exaggerate their willingness to pay more tax when they know there is no prospect of having to do so.
The general press reaction tended to exaggerate it either way.
Yet it would be foolish to exaggerate Mr Bush's problems.
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Head of student affairs Faisal Hanjra said he believed such a step was not generally useful because it tended to exaggerate the threat and blow the issue out of proportion.
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It would be hard to exaggerate the influence of Bill Clinton on the gestation of New Labour, especially the need for centrist politicians to identify themselves with conservative social values.
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