Sentence examples for Distorted from inspiring English sources

Apparently under pressure from hardliners back home, he later claimed that his comments had been distorted.

When your only contact with the human world is news reports of scandal and murder and the narcissists and witch-finders on Twitter, your sense of what people are actually like becomes distorted.

Once distorted by first-past-the-post and up against a unionist vote split three ways, it was enough to produce a landslide.

The source claimed that even the conventional warrant system has been distorted – whereas police used to ask for a warrant before intercepting a target's communications, they will now ask GCHQ to intercept the target's communications and then use that information to seek a warrant.

Lumping an extra fixture on to this trusted system would have destroyed this balance and so distorted the title race.

He said the national debate around immigration had been distorted by Ukip and threatened to demonise people who had come to the UK over the past 50 years to work and bring up their children.

Looking upon hands and feet – let alone faces – so distorted by disease that they appear mineralised, I was reminded of Max Ernst's use of decalcomania to create strange and post-human landscapes.

George Osborne cut the 50% top tax rate before it had bedded in, so that the data was still distorted by wealthy people paying themselves early to avoid its effect.

Merely getting paid for opinion itself does not mean it gets distorted, unless you're foolish enough to change your opinion to suit an outlet.

These incidents, already awful enough, are often amplified and distorted by Russian media, leading to even more anger among the crowds in what is becoming a downward spiral of hatred and violence.

The most distorted galaxies, therefore, were those twice as far from Earth as the gravitational lens distorting them.