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.

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

Vested interests distort the process of evolution.

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.

Cultural barriers are apt to distort what is heard.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

And donor agencies often recruit the best local talent themselves, usually at salaries that distort the labor market. In some countries, doctors find it more remunerative to work as translators for foreign aid agencies than to treat poor patients.

And I want to know the market the size of the market.

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

But the health care market is not an ordinary market.

Is the Market Moral?

The market realizes this.

The Political Stock Market

The Zoma street market

The market is big.

Where is the market?

The market is large.

The market was agitated.

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

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.

The Japanese market will now share the same Camry model as the Asian market Camry.

The market declined by 97 .

So the market is there.

Otherwise, the market knew best.

The Great Emerging Market Bubble

The market lacks institutional investors.

The market was quiet today.

The stock market fell yesterday.

John goes to the market.

I went to the market.

The market is over saturated.

The housing market is stagnant.

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.