These clouds would be excellent conductors of electricity and so would generate currents and distort Earth's magnetic field. |
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Phasers can be used to slightly modulate or heavily distort the signal spectrum. |
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The net present value, as a ranking criterion, can distort comparisons among competing projects of unequal investment size. |
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What I have said is that I resent misandrist feminists who distort facts to present women as being greater victims than they really are. |
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Then you distort that in some way, and so confound the reader's expectation. |
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High temperatures can cause plasmolysis, change chloroplast coloration, or distort cell shape. |
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How else can one interpret the fact that they repeatedly have to distort the reality of what he says in order to answer it? |
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Genuine dumping is difficult to prove but, like export subsidies, it may distort trade and inflict damage on the recipient country's producers. |
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Rhythms grow, and as they do so they distort and disfigure, becoming something like the post-punk you know, but wholly fresh to the senses. |
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Yet at the same time, it is so frail that one small piece of magnet, held nearby, can distort it totally. |
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Certainly one can distort the truth without fudging figures or Photoshopping images, simply by clever juxtaposition. |
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The second is that he is in touch with reality, but chooses to distort it in his public pronouncements for political gain or mere gratification. |
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This false grace of elegant variation causes confusion because badly chosen synonyms distort the real meaning. |
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To allow the few who dishonour our country to become a reflection of our entire nation is to distort history. |
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Many other factors may intervene to distort or completely eliminate the influences of seed dispersal patterns on subsequent distributions. |
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Rivals complain that Murphy has disproportionate amounts of cash with which to distort the market. |
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Don't grip the huss too hard as this makes them twist and distort even more. |
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The developed world should be serious about removing subsidies which distort trade and which damage the environment. |
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These air pockets can distort the sound waves and produce an unclear image. |
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The only fix is to silence the equipment, or to actively distort its signal emanations. |
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Worse, it could distort electronic transmissions and knock out nuclear early-warning systems. |
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Other competitors usually use tiny speakers that tend to distort the music easily, but not Motorola. |
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He's in constant mobile communication with an unseen editor who, like a devil on his shoulder, exhorts Dave to distort and exaggerate the story. |
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Earlier expressionists turned to tribal art to find the inspiration to distort the body in ways that could convey modern despair and agony. |
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It is part of the abnegation of learning and the senseless worship of youth that now distort our values. |
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As tariffs fell, the focus shifted to eliminating import quotas, which distort market behavior and the allocation of resources. |
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The ability of that medium to distort, graft, reopen and reanimate lost time permits these poems their exquisite, darkly funny dissections. |
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Don't allow the fabric to hang off the cutting surface, it will stretch and distort the knit. |
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People didn't intend amplifiers to distort and now we can't imagine a guitar without distortion. |
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The film depicts how physical and mental anguish can distort our view of reality. |
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Differential scattering can distort CD spectra by anisotropically scattering light away from PMT detector. |
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One is never enough because the Left is going to distort the facts just as much as the Right. |
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When politicians distort the truth in relation to medical issues it is nothing less than shameful. |
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Campaign donors and lobbyists are working Congress to minimize and distort reform. |
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Such linguistic or logocentric approaches to the arts have tended to distort or blur understandings of art on its own terms. |
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Tribal loyalties and feudal social structures distort the democratic process. |
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He conducts with drama, tenderness, and imagination, and he doesn't distort or sensationalize the music. |
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The only way to bust a union is to lie, distort, manipulate, threaten, and always, always attack. |
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I don't want people to distort my words, nor baselessly go on attacking handicapped people and have me take the blame for instigating it. |
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Other corporate labels distort classical definitions to the point of mutual self-destruction. |
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Watch out for thin, bendy plastic that you can easily distort, tear or pull apart. |
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The academic claims to have found 24 transcription errors in one poem and an average of 12 mistakes per page, which he says distort the meaning. |
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This decision grossly misrepresents the nature of such practices and will only serve to distort public understanding of religious devotion. |
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If you wash and dry after sewing up, the material will shrink and the pieces will distort. |
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Both of them have shown a tendency to distort the truth, and so neither is trustworthy. |
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These talk-radio hosts lie, distort, and bloviate, and nobody calls them on it. |
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Both groups are making unhistorical arguments that severely distort the cultural reality. |
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But wars are always mythologized, even as they're being waged, and that can often distort their meaning in the popular imagination. |
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Most people distort according to whims, unperceptiveness, and strange urges and desires inside them, desires that get the best of some too. |
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Don't let negativity distort your self-image so you feel unlovable or unredeemable. |
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Solid, dense designs may curl, cup or distort knits, even with the perfect stabilizer choice. |
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We've got better things to do than to try and distort what is now a harmless nickname. |
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The eyes bulge, the lips distort and foul-smelling gases ooze from every orifice. |
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These subsidies distort commodity prices and undercut U.S. exporters in key markets around the world. |
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The argument against objectivity supposes that contaminating bias will distort all one's work. |
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However, subsequent citations in the literature may distort or misrepresent the studies. |
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Unproven claims cleverly mask the truth with false doctrines about nature's workings that distort unsuspecting perceptions of reality. |
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Thereafter, they didn't need to collude or otherwise conspire to distort the market. |
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Every scholar and teacher has a list of infelicitous translations which misrepresent or distort the meaning intended by biblical authors. |
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What interests me enormously is the formidable capacity of photo-sensitive material to distort and fantasticate, nearly always dramatically, everything it touches. |
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So serious is this heat that it can distort a major APUS engine component, the rotor shaft, and cause significant damage. |
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Excessive force may distort and obstruct the airway, which potentially impedes laryngoscopy, endotracheal intubation, and mask ventilation after a failed intubation. |
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The transmission would distort her voice past recognition for the moment. |
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Even unapologetic apologetics can distort the content of the theology. |
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When battles happen, the netlike web of human experience suffers a pull that causes the whole to distort from what would have been its dimensions otherwise. |
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To suggest that we, rather like some ungrateful children, don't want the new leisure centre in South Norwood is to deliberately mislead and distort our argument. |
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That said, the rural-urban split should not be overplayed as the scale of pre-election intimidation doubtless served to distort the political process in the rural areas. |
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The coarseness of the silicification tends to distort the reticulae. |
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Within ten years of Vincent van Gogh's death in 1890, his paintings and drawings were being faked, and forgeries continue to distort our understanding of his work. |
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He is ferociously contemptuous of people who distort the meaning of a document or the argument of a book or use the past as an adventure playground. |
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So, the notion of fireproof expanded to include noncombustible materials that did not conduct heat, which could distort flanges or other crucial components. |
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Or, they could distort the contents of the bill and attack anyone who disagreed with them as a legal Luddite and hysteric. |
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A sophisticated person need not behave like a madari and, wittingly or unwittingly, distort his public image in today's highly unethical and competitive politics. |
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This can distort or deform the frame or even break the glass. |
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Language can be used to distort our beliefs and opinion of an individual. |
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The nature of adulation does not distort his impression of reality. |
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And would-be collectors like Henry Stephenson continue to distort the cultural record in their hunt for hidden treasures. |
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By taking this stand they are choosing to deliberately distort my views. |
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In the Gulf of Mexico, however, salt domes scatter and distort the waves, so oil companies need help in interpreting the data. |
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They argue that the BBC can distort the market, making it difficult for commercial providers to operate. |
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Successive glaciations tend to distort and erase the geological evidence, making it difficult to interpret. |
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A world in which the rulers even invented a new language, Newspeak, in order to distort the true meaning of words and suppress dissent. |
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These revelations, however, soon distort God's revelation and immanentize it through a political choice. |
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Before beginning this induction, though, the enquirer must free his or her mind from certain false notions or tendencies which distort the truth. |
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Many of his sculptures seem to recede into the distance, disappear into the ground or distort the space around them. |
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All projections distort distances and directions, and each projection distributes those distortions differently. |
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All these techniques will, to a certain extent, distort the odor of the aromatic compounds obtained from the raw materials. |
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Hollywood would never grossly distort the Civil War or D-day. |
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Saying a word in a different tone can distort or utterly mangle a line. |
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Starquakes in slowing neutron stars drive matter toward the magnetic poles, distort the star's shape, and excite precession. |
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I have witnessed at first hand how Irving likes to distort things. |
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What has he done but twist and skew and distort and discolor and belittle and be pretty this whole doggoned country? |
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Rehberger is renowned for his abstract art and optical effects that distort perception. |
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Other common narcissus problems include eelworm, which distort and rot bulbs. |
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However, he deplored the superimposition of targeted UCMs over and above Security Council sanctions which distort the purpose of the latter. |
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When a signal is close to its return, a mutual inductance exists that may further distort the current flow. |
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Don't distort what she meant by taking her words out of context. |
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Don't distort her meaning by taking her words out of context. |
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Maps by necessity distort the presentation of the earth's surface. |
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In Einstein's theory, energy and momentum distort spacetime in their vicinity, and other particles move in trajectories determined by the geometry of spacetime. |
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Moreover, kickback schemes also raise the risk that the delivery of healthcare services will raise costs, since kickbacks tend to distort efficiencies in the marketplace. |
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The problem however, is that western media and academia barely reflect that reality or intentionally distort it, disarticulate it and when necessary, defame its characters. |
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