Sentence examples for been distorted by a from inspiring English sources

At a hearing last month Mr. Tanzi denied having orchestrated the collapse of his dairy empire, saying Parmalat's finances had been distorted by a "house of mirrors".

For the past eight months, the employment picture, and with it the entire election campaign, has been distorted by a statistical mirage.

Many members of this class, like many Americans generally, have a vague sense that their lives have been distorted by a giant cultural bias.

Despite saying this the BBC Trust asserts later in the report: "While we have not found evidence to suggest that the aims of the platform have been distorted by a 'skew' towards pay, we will keep this area under review".

When writing about both Rebecca West and the journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, he complains that their reputations have been distorted by "a received cultural prejudice that assumes fiction to be the loftiest preserve of literary and imaginative distinction".

The PPP's showing in this election has been distorted by a variety of positive and negative factors: the death of their leader, the multiple splits of the PML, the vote against those politicians tarnished by their association with President Pervez Musharraf and the unpopularity of the party's new chief, Bhutto's widower.

"Business has been distorted by an obsession with short-termism and profit maximization at any cost.

To the extent that executives did cash out large amounts of such compensation, their decisions might have been distorted by an excessive focus on short-term results.

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.

Amy Seimetz stars as a young woman whose identity is distorted by a strange new drug-like parasite.