Sentence examples for a perverse response from inspiring English sources

Instead of backing down from those protester cases, St . Louis Countyofficials pursued a perverse response.

Although planned apparently in detail, over a substantial period of time, the assault on Charlie Hebdo by Islamist fanatics could be seen as a perverse response to the positive initiatives toward Muslim immigrants taken by Merkel and other non-Muslims.

It was a nicely perverse response to Mr. Brotzmann's total disinterest in the blues language, and in a generally perverse context, it worked just fine.

Yet the voyeuristic grimness of the world depicted in this "homage to silent film" offers a greater barrier than language ever could, forcing the audience to look away – a peculiarly perverse response to provoke given the film's immersive achievements.

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Using the universe of administrative filings in Rwanda, I document perverse responses to changes in liability: an income tax reform that standard models would predict should lead all taxpayers to pay lower taxes in fact caused firms to increase tax paid by 75%.

Sociologists Patricia Martin and Marlene Powell termed the series of perverse responses that police, medical, legal personnel and even rape crisis centers offer survivors a "second assault".

The headline on this article, "China IPOs: How Do You Say 'Bubble' In Chinese?", likely just prompted some investors to click "bid" on $YOKU in an almost perverse Pavlovian response.

For rebels, it creates a perverse incentive to escalate ethnic violence so as to provoke an international military response.

In a perverse twist of academic fate, our own discipline of business showed the most bias, with 87percentt of white males receiving a response compared with just 62percentt of all females and minorities combined.

It is a perverse triumph.