They should be warned instead about the dangers of inflating expectations that they have little chance of fulfilling.

You have inflated expectations of things but these need to be played down a lot or there may be some disappointments.

They now face the world as graduates in inflated numbers with inflated expectations, inflated debt, devalued degrees and deflated prospects.

Perhaps their frustrations stem from a run of three wins and two draws from five games a month ago that inflated their expectations.

Even fund managers who stand to gain from the highly flattering forecasts that emerge from these flawed calculations are worried about the danger of irresponsibly inflating expectations.

Artificially increasing the rate could help to inflate profits; lowering it could suggest that a bank was in better financial health than it was.

We complain about the price of gas only when the bills arrive, or one of the companies serving us reports particularly inflated profits.

With finance harder to access, companies that are under pressure from shareholders may try to boost results artificially by inflating profits, deflating losses or bringing sales forward.

An investigation found that senior executives had ordered managers to inflate profits.

The recent deregulation of most stamp prices, combined with a need to vastly inflate profits for investors, can only add up to signficant price increases and rural service cuts.

That means you will have to give a fair price for the chattels based on their real value - and not inflate the cost artificially.

Economically, the high spending power of the university and of its students in aggregate may inflate the cost of living above that of the region.

By banning unstable, toxic and hazardous wastes from landfill, the government has inflated the cost of legitimate disposal.

I suspected they were trying to redact as much as possible with the specific aim of inflating the costs in order to suppress publication.

The size of the public sector swelled to make up for private sector job losses and governments ran deficits as this expansion inflated their costs beyond their tax revenues.

Senior army commanders inflate the number of soldiers on their payroll, allowing them to pocket the salaries of a legion of ghost soldiers.

In principle, it would be possible to inflate the number of bytes in an encoding by padding the code point with leading 0s.

At the same time they devalued their degree standards to inflate the numbers of students passing and getting high marks.

Within a month, a great wave of street traders had swamped the city centre, occupying virtually every paving slab, inflating the numbers from perhaps 2,000 to 20,000.

He was expected to warn coaches when he was coming for supposedly random testing and to inflate the numbers of participants by taking samples from amateur sports enthusiasts.

Subsidies inflate the price of land so young farmers cannot get a foothold.

Prosecutors say he used offshore companies to inflate the price of films to avoid taxes and create slush funds.

The coalition has also pledged to tackle the rising number of personal injury claims for workplace accidents, which cost management time and inflate the price of employers' liability insurance.

The producers used moments of spike energy production to inflate the price of energy.

We need to invest in the new, rather than merely inflating the price of existing assets.

Buy-to-let fraud typically involves a syndicate of property professionals collaborating to inflate the value of properties that are then bought for less than the value stated to the lender.

These rules were adopted for one reason-to make it harder for donors to inflate the value of donated property and claim an excessive charitable contribution deduction.

What has happened in the past decade to inflate the value of land such as this?

Further, sterling's weakness, although boosting reported earnings, has unhelpfully inflated the value of its overseas borrowings, pushing net debt up to 162 million.

It accused them of inflating the value of shares in a company of which they were directors by overstating the worth of salvaged artefacts.