So, there's a kind of British understatement, murder mystery theme that I really love very much.

So to say that the public education system in Bertie County is struggling would be a huge understatement.

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word bad would be perhaps the understatement of the year.

To say that we faced high doses of skepticism in those early years is just a huge understatement, but we were so convinced that we might be able to make this work that we chipped away with incremental modifications to this system.

The border dispute remains unresolved, with periodic incursions by Chinese troops onto Indian soil and new irritants such as the anti Chinese protests by Tibetan exiles who have been given asylum in India. To speak of a bilateral trust deficit might be an understatement.

The conclusion is that, partly due to teething problems in the Atlas data processing system introduced by UNDP in January 2004, by June 2005 UNHCR still did not have a final figure on its UNDP processed expenditures for 2004, with gross deviances of 2 million and a net understatement of at least 130,000.

The conclusion is that, due partly to teething problems in the Atlas data processing system introduced by UNDP in January 2004, by June 2005 UNHCR still did not have a final figure on its UNDP processed expenditures for 2004, with gross deviations amounting to 2 million and a net understatement of at least 130,000.

The image on the computer screen is shocking a man, lying on a hospital bed, his head bandaged, with long trickles of blood running from the top of his scalp. The man, now sitting next to me, explains with a bit of understatement, Of course I must continue to have faith in the Chinese legal system, although I must admit that this incident has somewhat dampened my optimism.