Sentence examples for and misused by the from inspiring English sources

But the group's work was distorted and misused by the president and used to justify the discriminatory measure.

(Hendrik Hertzberg wrote an excellent piece in the New Yorker explaining how the ACORN issue has been completely distorted and misused by the Republicans).

New machines killed more people more quickly, and the authority of ideas, warped and misused by fanatics, gave the killers more absolute reasons for doing it.

"Locality information is used and misused by traders.

A book that is still used by millions for daily reflection and misused by a good number for political purposes.

The report gave details of $1.1 billion in funds mis-spent by central departments, and $8.6 billion misused by the debt-clearing agencies at the forefront of China's banking reforms.

It particularly objected to a sunset provision in the House bill, under which many of the surveillance powers granted to the government would expire in two years unless Congress decided they were still necessary and were not being misused by the government.

Paul also believes that the notion of the separation of church and state is currently misused by the court system: "In case after case, the Supreme Court has used the infamous 'separation of church and state' metaphor to uphold court decisions that allow the federal government to intrude upon and deprive citizens of their religious liberty".

There is no doubt that many of these ideas were already in existence, such as Fichte's renowned addresses to the German Nation,7 which became a founding document of German nationalists, or Nietzsche's claim that "God is dead" and his concept of the Übermensch,8 yet these ideas were misused by the Nazis and reworked into a very different political and cultural concept.

"There are serious possibilities that Section 66A will be misused by the state and influential people against innocent citizens," Mr. Marx said.

The party appears paralysed by two issues: the fact that it started the reforms now being misused by the coalition; and a terror that it will somehow appear backward-looking if it doesn't come up with some shiny new ideas.