Second, the fear that the old and frail will be bullied into committing suicide may be exaggerated.
But the statistics show that while negative attitudes to children may be exaggerated, they are based on fact.
This fear, thinks Monica Das Gupta of the World Bank, may be exaggerated.
Now, of course, the calculation has changed, though some of the present talk about an Arctic El Dorado may be exaggerated.
The United States still has big problems with race (see article), but its effect in the general election may be exaggerated.
Some of the claims made for post-war Bosnia may be exaggerated too.
To be sure, reports of the Democrats' death may be exaggerated.
Some claims about the borderless world may be exaggerated, but there is no doubt that firms increasingly disperse production to wherever it can be done most efficiently.
Privately, some diplomats concede that the numbers may be exaggerated by regional officials who have business contracts in the lucrative and booming security sector in countries like Nigeria.
Reports of large-scale help from Gulf Arabs may be exaggerated.
That worry may be exaggerated.
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California Republican Party officials, however, said news about GOP defections may be greatly exaggerated.
Although this may be an exaggerated figure, about a third of Sao Paulo's prisoners are inside for non-violent offences involving drugs or theft.
Russian assertions of internal Chechen disarray may well be wishful thinking, or exaggerated: independent evidence, such as it is, tells a different story.
It may be premature to report that the death of the hydrogen economy has been greatly exaggerated.
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