"The government exaggerated the threat from Iraq."

Many economists say the government is exaggerating the economic dangers.

In the case of smallpox, there was suspicion that the government was exaggerating the threat to whip up support for its drive to war.

Still, he maintained the government was exaggerating the significance of the downloading.

Many reporters believe that the government routinely exaggerates the need for secrecy.

But the government, he says, has exaggerated the extent of it.

His death occurred after he testified before a parliamentary inquiry into accusations that the government had exaggerated the Iraqi threat.

The unions said the government was exaggerating the cost of Germany's pension benefits.

The Austrian police and occupying government evidently exaggerated the society's extent, putting most of the prisoners under torture.

The government purposely exaggerated its proposed expenditures so that it could later announce a higher than expected surplus.