Underestimates Sentence Examples

Perhaps Lord Melchett underestimates the intelligence of the consumers.

Often the medical history alone underestimates the severity of coronary heart disease.

Visual censuses unless undertaken in entirely open country are notorious for producing significant underestimates of the true population number.

Consequently, as is now well understood, growth accounting systematically underestimates the contribution of innovation to economic growth.

The conclude that this study suggests that few patients take medications as prescribed and that self-report substantially underestimates medication noncompliance.

These numbers may be underestimates due to underreporting of the problem or failure of diagnosis by medical personnel.

The VICP greatly underestimates the amount of legal work required for a reasonable chance of a successful claim.

But many of the laws were quite unsuitable for the circumstances of his age, and the belief that a body of intricate and even contradictory legislation was imposed suddenly upon a people newly emerged from bondage in Egypt raises insurmountable objections, and underestimates the fact that legal usage existed in the earliest stages of society, and therefore in pre-Mosaic times.

Though differing on many points, they agree in thinking (I) that the island of Sphagia is the ancient Sphacteria, Palaeokastro the ancient Coryphasium or Pylos; (2) that in 425 B.C. the lagoon of Osman Aga was navigable and communicated by a navigable channel with the Bay of Navarino; (3) that Thucydides, if the MS. reading is correct, underestimates the length of the island, which he gives as 15 stades instead of 24 (nearly 3 m.), and also the breadth of the southern channel between it and the mainland.

That Bacon underestimates the importance of selective and of provisional explanatory hypotheses even in such fields as that of chemistry, and that technically he is open to some criticism from the point of view that negative judgment is derivate as necessarily resting on positive presuppositions, may be true enough.