Vested interests distort the process of evolution.

Cultural barriers are apt to distort what is heard.

As money talks in politics, private incentives distort public policy and prevent it from correcting market failures in ways that, in turn, further distort private incentives.

Both perceptions distort reality, though both contain a kernel of truth.

The TV is flooded with anti Japanese invasion dramas that distort history.

The resulting higher tax rates distort economic incentives and thus weaken future economic performance.

You distort it a little bit, especially in terms of pitch, and you've changed it.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Given the decentralized nature of the system, would national interests distort the conduct of monetary policy?

For example, by disfavoring lending to private firms, state owned banks distort the allocation of resources.

Until recently, Exxon Mobil and other companies paid lobbyists to try to distort the public debate.

At the Hiroshima museum itself, the victim role has been exploited in ways that similarly distort memory.

And donor agencies often recruit the best local talent themselves, usually at salaries that distort the labor market.

Moreover, a distortion of private incentives affects public incentives as well, and the two become intertwined. As money talks in politics, private incentives distort public policy and prevent it from correcting market failures in ways that, in turn, further distort private incentives.

They must also ensure that additional official financing and debt relief will not distort incentives or create moral hazard.

But, worse than that, blindness to what really happened in the past can distort the development of your society.

Emerging economies have watched the leveraged power of investors distort the price formation process in crisis stricken advanced economies.

In some cases, this will harm free trade, and governments should be careful to avoid measures that distort resource allocation.

For, in our zeal to learn lessons from history, we often learn the wrong ones, or distort history towards dubious ends.

Media outlets in many parts of the world often serve only to inflame and distort rather than to explain and inform.

So they distort the words of the Scripture out of context, and have forgotten some of what they were warned against.

The sender knows what she says, but not always what the targets hear. Cultural barriers are apt to distort what is heard.

Labor economists focus not only on how trade unions can distort markets, but also how, under certain conditions, they can enhance productivity.

But certain kinds of hypersensitivity, while entirely acceptable and laudable in themselves, may sometimes distort findings such as you have presented to me.

There are other sources of tax revenue in many developing countries that are both more equitable and distort economic incentives far less than VAT.

Of course, no perfect accounting framework exists, but some frameworks systematically distort. Indeed, a hidden agenda often exists in the choice of an accounting framework.

True understanding in human affairs requires a patient identification and undoing of those facets of our implicit assumptions that distort the reality of the other.

They rely very heavily on teachers, who I have personally seen distort the message to these children as and when it suits their purpose to.

It s very unpleasant to read my journalist colleagues who distort my words and credit me with thoughts and feelings that I never expressed or had.

You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, your willingness to take enormous risks to win this person.

But the past, especially when not handled with care, can be the enemy of the future and distort our reading of the challenges of the present.

And you see that when you distort a map based on attention, the world within American television news is basically reduced to this giant bloated U.S.

Milosevic is gone, but so long as his trial is perceived as a show trial and not real justice, he will continue to distort our democracy.

Nordea tried to get the deposit guarantee rules changed to create a level playing field in which a cross border merger would not distort competition between banks.

Similarly, Crimean bloggers who support Russia have a low opinion of the Ukrainian media, believing them to be simply fulfilling orders and attempting to distort the situation.

A long track record of success can warp executives analysis, distort their decision making, and leave them blind to incipient paradigm shifts or rapid changes in a market.

But the financial interests involved tend to distort the process by creating incentives to overestimate the benefits of new drugs, underestimate the risks, and, above all, boost prescriptions.

Panic about terrorism and climate change doesn t blind us entirely to other problems facing the planet, but our fear does distort the lens through which we see the big picture.

Budget deficits automatically increase government debt, requiring higher future taxes to pay the interest on that debt. The resulting higher tax rates distort economic incentives and thus weaken future economic performance.

Brazil, frustrated with America s intransigence, brought a case against US cotton subsidies before the WTO, which ruled as almost any economist would the subsidies distort world trade and are therefore prohibited.

For example, by disfavoring lending to private firms, state owned banks distort the allocation of resources. Chinese agriculture provides another example of tension between private entrepreneurship and public sector ownership of assets.

It's good that Osman Pashayev is in Istanbul we have access to relevant information on the events there, without having to wait for international news and for to copy and, possibly, distort .

Corporate tax expenditures narrow the base, raise the cost of tax compliance, and distort decisions about investment projects, how to finance them, what form of business organization to adopt, and where to produce.

Ethnocentrism is bound to distort a people s relations with the rest of the world, and Israel s doctrine of power was drawn from the depths of Jewish experience, particularly the eternal, unforgiving hostility of a Gentile world.

Although the focus on renewable energy sources is welcome, policies that distort food supply are not. America s subsidies for corn based ethanol contribute more to the coffers of ethanol producers than they do to curtailing global warming.