The light from above distorts in the concavities formed at the points on which the strider rests. |
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Many investors now distrust pension accounting because it distorts reported earnings. |
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Is it just me, or is the story here that Chris completely distorts what Clark said? |
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The system is bureaucratic, distorts land use and fossilises the countryside and businesses. |
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It's appalling that Ford, for example, will provide only one wide-angle photo, which distorts the shape of the vehicle. |
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This budget abandons all hope of reforming wasteful military procurement and distorts America's priorities at home and abroad. |
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Quite apart from whether political influence peddling distorts criminal policy, does such peddling weaken the case for privatization? |
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She makes images from a digitally sampled cloud which she layers and stretches and distorts into all sorts of weird fairy floss cloudscapes. |
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Poor exposure assessment, insofar as it is nondifferential, distorts the epidemiological measures of association toward the null value. |
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I think he distorts fact, and oftentimes his distortions are believed by a lot of people that ought to take another look. |
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European countries have high taxation, and because there are lots of them, this distorts the calculation of crude averages. |
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Instead, by some sleight of mind, it distorts our idea of the pool of possibilities. |
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This shows how the current crisis distorts opinion, winding it tightly around opposite poles. |
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Put on some headphones and twist the volume dial until it distorts beyond recognition. |
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She is able to talk about the beauty in women in such a way that distorts it into a kind of straight jacket of insanity and uncontrollableness. |
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A magnet distorts the picture as it distorts the path of electrons flowing from the electron gun towards the screen inside the tv. |
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The increase in numbers, while it distorts the demographic picture, has more disastrous effects. |
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The reports suggest the Commission has come to the view that negative gearing distorts the housing market and should be reviewed. |
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The phenomenon distorts religion, debases tradition, and twists the political process wherever it unfolds. |
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The author refers to a conflict of which he either has little understanding, or knowingly distorts the truth. |
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She also focuses on the ways in which the use of the adversary method as a paradigm of philosophy limits and distorts the work of philosophers. |
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All the media focus on Rome when a new pope is elected distorts the nature of the church itself. |
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The detective story is superficially part of the hard-boiled tradition, but a vein of absurdism, a hint of Kafka, distorts the naturalism. |
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Sometimes it's not clear whether popular culture reflects reality or distorts it. |
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The irregular shape of the cornea distorts the image causing it to blur, unlike in a lazy eye where the eye is essentially normal. |
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And our affection for animals, uninformed by experience of them, distorts our perceptions and inclines us toward anthropomorphism. |
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Aside from the perversity of putting the government in charge of teaching the next generation of voters, it distorts housing markets beyond recognition. |
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The media, he said, often distorts what young people say and do. |
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Vulgar constructionism thus distorts the possibilities for meaningful identity politics by conflating at least two separate but closely linked manifestations of power. |
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Instead of creating the usual digital effects, Jennifer Carpenter, the daughter of film director John Carpenter, convincingly distorts her body to portray the possessed girl. |
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Later, when society distorts our wants and makes it harder for us to care, the deliberateness of ethical caring supplements the spontaneity of natural caring. |
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Intensely expressive, she pulsates with angst in contractions, whips up her leg like a command, distorts her body into a stylized, modernist geometry. |
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It distorts more and more every day of the month, every year, due to the slow effects of fault creep. |
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High hypermetropia is inconvenient at any age, even among children, as it distorts short and long sight and demands constant correction. |
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As the sound pressure level increases, the source-receiver function deviates from linearity and the wave distorts. |
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Undeclared work distorts competition and undermines the financing of social protection systems. |
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This massive underemployment completely distorts the distribution of incomes and considerably reduces social mobility and social advancement. |
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A biblical fundamentalism distorts a meaningful and authentic understanding of the truth of Jesus Christ. |
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The promotion of thinness among young women distorts a normal body image and contributes to low self-esteem and obesity in later life. |
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It also seriously distorts the allocation of funds, and thus leads to lopsided development in the economy as a whole. |
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Their zirconium cladding swells and distorts as a result of temperature differences and radiation damage. |
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It obfuscates the division between public and commercial service and distorts competition. |
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With the status of a freelance retoucher, he embellishes, transforms and distorts reality, sometimes creating a new one from it. |
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To some extent, this has undoubtedly acted as a spur to research, but I believe that it distorts more than it reveals, and that all ultimately lose by the process. |
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As a consequence, a comparison should be done for every new leaf material between the emission in frozen and unfrozen samples, to determine if freezing distorts the signal. |
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Depression is serious because it engulfs every aspect of our lives and distorts the way we feels about the world and ourselves. |
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All of which, say commercial bankers, distorts markets and stymies much-needed consolidation among Germany's 3,400 banks. |
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In 2001 Holcomb was diagnosed with keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease that affects the cornea and distorts vision. |
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We are concerned about the portrayal of violence as it objectifies the human person and distorts human dignity. |
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This property of addictive desires distorts the phenomenological field of agency in such a way that my powers of reflective self-control are vitiated but not destroyed. |
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Bribery distorts competition and diverts national resources into crooked officials' offshore accounts. |
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But this particular map only confuses and distorts the issue, and seems clearly designed for propaganda purposes. |
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The smaller turn-out in Iowa distorts the result because a disproportionate number of those attending tend to be activists. |
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It distorts the surface truth to probe for a reality that is buried deeper. |
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State aid distorts competition and is unfair to both consumers and companies. |
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This advantage affects trade between Member States and that it distorts or threatens to distort competition. |
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This leads to dysfunctioning of the internal market and distorts competition within the transport system. |
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So it's useful information, but it distorts the process for it to result in different verdicts. |
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The sudden emergence of the artistic act disrupts behaviours and distorts usages of the urban space. |
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I reject the Decision to pay this fine because it distorts the truth and turns me into a criminal. |
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It distorts markets, curbs economic growth and discourages foreign investment. |
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The Church considers corruption to be a very serious fact that distorts the political system. |
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It distorts agents' decisions and limits the contractual space available to agents and the government. |
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Their perception of public opinion was distorted, but the very nature of being in a position to hear complaints distorts the perception. |
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Corruption deters investment, hinders socio-economic development, undermines good governance, and distorts government policy thus leading to misallocation of resources. |
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The antinovel usually fragments and distorts the experience of its characters, forcing the reader to construct the reality of the story from a disordered narrative. |
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It distorts our inward frame, and unsettles the adjustments of our minds. |
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The enquiry could find that a monopoly situation exists among the manufacturers, wholesalers or even veterinary surgeons, which prevents or distorts competition. |
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When a ferromagnetic object enters the probe's permanent magnetic field, it distorts the flux causing it to cut the coil windings and generate a voltage. |
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In short, their inclusion in the report distorts the true corporate picture, rather than focusing attention on collectible accounts that head office and regional collections officers can control. |
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I would like us to remember that the WTO's objective is to cut any agricultural support that distorts trade, squeezes prices or harms the developing countries. |
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As opposed to a psychological approach, the actors parody television hosts, or speak with their backs to the audience as monitors display close-ups of their eyes and a sound technician distorts their voices. |
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The drawback is that it distorts the shapes and areas of large land masses, and the distortion gets progressively worse as you get closer to the poles. |
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This form of support is especially problematical in the international context as it artificially stimulates domestic production and therefore distorts world trade. |
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But if you have a system that has an expectation, then that distorts the whole system because decisions should be made on the evidence, rather than a pre-determined set of quotas. |
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Add to this the rise in income and wealth inequality in most countries, and it is no wonder that the perception of a winner-take-all economy that benefits only elites and distorts the political system has become widespread. |
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In the name of a non-existent realism, the recommendation distorts the nature of the problem from a social to a medical problem, something which results in submission and defeatism. |
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Finally, let us not forget that, every year, the overall budget allocated in fact contradicts the document that you are presenting to us today and distorts the political will demonstrated and voted on by our Parliament. |
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It implies that certain economic sectors or activities are treated more favourably than others and thus distorts competition because it discriminates between companies that receive assistance and others that do not. |
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Corruption distorts the fair rules of competition. |
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In particular, inflation distorts the signalling function of relative price movements and diverts resources away from productive uses towards activities directed at protecting investors against inflation. |
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The conversion carried out here distorts the tooth form in the horizontal plane so that, for the manufactured shaping cutter, the projection produces the exact tooth form. |
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When a DNA base becomes alkylated, it forms a lesion that distorts the shape of the molecule enough to prevent successful replication. |
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The corporate veil also distorts lines of legal responsibility. |
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Conversely, in the harmful style of disputation, the disputer distorts and twists the opponent's words, making them come out false or inconsistent or extending them in unintended ways. |
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When the bulk of a bank's assets can be traded, relying on historical acquisition costs distorts reality and leads to capital misallocation. |
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In his zeal to equate this with neoconservatism, Desch distorts the following points. |
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It distorts and trivializes a living people's culture and impacts negatively on Native American self-esteem. |
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This distorts the statistics for GNWT as to the number of recipients and their dependents, and, it appears that Income Support was successful in moving another family off assistance. |
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By disdaining to understand the real effect of either idea on human minds, Mr Grayling distorts and impoverishes what could have been a powerful argument in favour of moral freedom. |
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The scheme distorts competition because it provides additional liquidity to listed small caps by altering the market value of their stocks and favouring certain undertakings managing the specialised investment vehicles. |
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State aid distorts competition and, whether or not it has an impact on trade between Member States, may damage the allocative efficiency of the European economy. |
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It shows in particular that transparency is optimal except in certain scenarios where, on the contrary, it distorts communication to the private sector. |
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Of all the human emotions, there is none that corrupts as much as fear, none that distorts characters more, none that more effectively prevents the development of all the faculties. |
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It distorts the principle that promotion is recognition of past, exceptional performance and the expectation of future performance at a higher level. |
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Using Hegel and dialectics, however, Cole successfully shows how periodization itself distorts reality. |
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Within the framework of the procedure the Commission found that the LIT 78 billion capital and the subsidized loan constitute State aid, which distorts competition and affects trade between Member States. |
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The purchasing power should only be considered a factor that distorts competition if it is exercised by a single purchaser capable of strangling suppliers whose survival substantially depends on him. |
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It undermines good government, distorts public policy, leads to the misallocation of resources, and harms the private sector and private sector development. |
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Rather than just brightening the resulting image, this effect distorts it. |
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It distorts the Earth's surface, too, creating a landscape of domes and pits known as thermokarst because of its resemblance to the karstic terrain of limestone-rich parts of the world. |
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Mr. Speaker, as the Liberal leader steams toward forcing an unnecessary and opportunistic election, he constantly distorts facts to take down the Canadian economy and the workers and businesses that fuel it. |
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Just as there are limits on how large a glass telescope lens can be made before it sags and distorts under its own weight, there are practical limits to the size of a parabolic dish. |
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It undermines democracy and the rule of law, leads to violations of human rights, distorts markets, erodes the quality of life and allows organized crime, terrorism and other threats to human security to flourish. |
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Second, the presence of molecules that are permanent dipoles temporarily distorts the electron charge in other nearby polar or nonpolar molecules, thereby inducing further polarization. |
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Carbon emissions are a market externality that distorts the true cost of production. |
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Secondly, it accentuates inequality across Europe and distorts the market, with only the United Kingdom, it seems, committed to fleecing its farmers through voluntary modulation. |
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Splenomegaly associated with IM results from lymphocytic infiltration, which distorts the splenic architecture, making the spleen fragile and prone to rupture. |
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The elm's wood bends well and distorts easily making it quite pliant. |
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In the 2008 sculpture Episodic Recollections, for example, the memory is presented as itself a medium that fragmentizes knowledge and distorts experience. |
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That effect, known as gravitational lensing, slightly but noticeably distorts the radiation journeying through space from the cosmic microwave background. |
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Such moral hazard distorts the competition with distribution systems that protect copyright, gives out wrong signals to the market and misorients investment. |
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