(v. t.) The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.
(v. t.) That which is disclosed or revealed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(2) [Disclosure: Newly-elected Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman elected to Congress, is a college friend of my husband’s.]
(3) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(4) He said: "Some people have suggested that all of the disclosures by Mr Snowden and Mr Manning were some kind of 'whistleblowing'.
(5) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(6) The disclosures were contained in a report by the prisons watchdog on HMP Lindholme, a category C prison near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, which holds just over 1,000 adult male inmates.
(7) Disclosure of the 5'-terminal sequence of the HCV genome would facilitate its taxonomic classification, and contribute toward immunological diagnosis of infection and development of vaccines.
(8) An official in the Chicago police department’s office of legal affairs, Victor Castillo, has told the Guardian’s attorney that he needed the mayor’s office to sign off on the disclosure of at least one Homan Square-related document.
(9) Each standard is applied against the disclosures in the G-LOC protocol to determine if the elements of the requirement are met.
(10) The borderline group scored significantly higher on the following scales: Disclosure (X), Debasement (Z), Passive-Aggressive (8A), Self-Defeating (8B), Borderline (C), and Major Depression (CC).
(11) Up-and-coming Tea Party favourite Ted Cruz issued a similar statementon Friday after the wave of disclosures, saying he would work with "colleagues in the Senate who share my concerns to ensure that we have all the facts about these surveillance programs".
(12) Specifically, 24 high-self-disclosing subjects and 24 low-self-disclosing subjects were presented with four bogus inventories manipulated on the variables of agreement in content and amount of disclosure.
(13) Grieve said the correspondence contains the prince’s “most deeply held personal views and beliefs” and disclosure might undermine his “position of political neutrality”.
(14) On the back of the disclosures, President Obama ordered a White House review into data surveillance , a number of congressional reform bills have been introduced, and protections have begun to be put in place to safeguard privacy for foreign leaders and to increase scrutiny over the NSA’s mass data collection.
(15) Its communications director, Phil Diak, said: “Each year the AEC examines the latest annual published disclosure returns including identifying any apparent discrepancies.
(16) In the aftermath of Snowden's disclosures he was forced to apologise for misleading Congress.
(17) Updated at 10.23pm GMT 9.13pm GMT It’s Disclosure!
(18) Most vacancies are now advertised over the internet and claimants are encouraged to apply online to help them prepare for the world of work.” The disclosure of the revenue generated by BT came after the Observer revealed that 85% of benefit fraud allegations made by the public to a telephone hotline or online over the last five years were false.
(19) And the fact that the disclosures have led to the highest journalism rewards, have led to historic reforms in the US and around the world – all of that would be irrelevant in a prosecution under the espionage laws in the United States.” Snowden also could face an untold number of additional charges if he returned to the United States.
(20) A group convened by the WHO recommended full disclosure, but ordered an urgent review of the security and safety of labs where such viruses are stored.
Understatement
Definition:
(n.) The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
Example Sentences:
(1) RBS chief executive Ross McEwan apologised to consumers: “To say I’m angry would be an understatement.
(2) To say that the loss of BB King is devastating to the blues community is an understatement.
(3) With understatement, he added: "I don't feel comfortable."
(4) Heaton’s recollections are heavy on understatement.
(5) Since that strangely undeserved result in Madrid last November, PSG have gone on a run that makes convincing seem like an understatement.
(6) With some understatement, Thompson said: "We've weathered a series of lively storms and been through some trying as well as some very successful times together.
(7) In light of the opening episode, that seems like an understatement.
(8) That the act outraged public decency is an understatement.
(9) Unfortunately, we had to lower the number of people,” he says, in something of an understatement, adding that he used redeployment and natural turnover as much as possible.
(10) He starts by discussing the economic climate – saying that eurozone economic growth remains "weak" (an understatement), with fears over the crisis weighing on confidence and sentiment.
(11) Furthermore, perhaps calling Corbyn a “harsh critic” is an understatement in light of some of his statements.
(12) Courtesy the estate of Richard Hamilton That Hamilton was anti-capitalist is an understatement.
(13) That is an understatement because the expectations were high.
(14) To say that the 170-year history of the Co-op Group is complicated would be a howling understatement.
(15) Late-night tales: how a new crop of TV hosts is reinventing an old format Read more First, to say it’s a “hit” is an understatement – it’s a phenomenon.
(16) And to say Fifa has been dismayed by this burst of democratic dissent is an understatement.
(17) It will be difficult to keep them all happy.” That might be the understatement of the year.
(18) Volunteer complaints panel To say the public has little faith in the Independent Police Complaints Commission would be an understatement.
(19) With the organisation reeling from a string of corruption allegations against 10 of the 24-man executive committee, Jérôme Valcke , Fifa's secretary general, admitted with grim understatement that Fifa's reputation is: "Not at its highest."
(20) Fits like a brick To say that it is unclear quite how Beats and Apple would fit is be an understatement.