Sentence examples for be distorted by a from inspiring English sources

The parliamentary debate on the energy bill resumes in the Lords on Tuesday and is set to be distorted by a small but influential group of global warming contrarians.

In the absence of that process, the entire field might be distorted, by a form of exaggeration that is – we trust – honest and unconscious, but more interestingly, collective and disseminated.

A healthy economy demands that the price of borrowed money be set by the market to correspond with risk, not be distorted by a half-decade's worth of interventions from a central bank.

The silhouette of the kidney may be distorted by a rounded swelling; or the renal pelvis, made visible by the injection of a contrast medium, may be displaced or distorted.

In the case of Sir Donald Bradman, Australia's most famous batsman, this reached near perfection: a fraction under 100 runs per innings over a 20-year international career.But batting averages can be distorted by a quirk innings in which the batsman is not out are included in the total but excluded from the divisor.

The OECD recently reported a sharp downturn in foreign direct investment in France in 2004, from $43 billion to $24 billion, but its figures tend to be distorted by a few big deals, and by the location (often Luxembourg) of holding companies.

The observation of the vibrational Raman spectrum of a molecule depends on a change in the molecules polarizability (ability to be distorted by an electric field) rather than its dipole moment during the vibration of the atoms.

Moreover, if the record of the past were to be destroyed by organized lying, or be distorted by an attempt to rewrite history, political life would be deprived of one of its essential and stabilizing elements.

In the uplink, each user's signal may be distorted by an independent carrier frequency offset (CFO), which impairs the orthogonality of the subcarrier signals and, if not properly compensated, results in performance degradations.

Mr. Miller said that those numbers were distorted by a huge drop in activity.

Jackson was, in their view, grievously maligned – a saintly character whose good intentions were distorted by a malicious press.