Sentence examples for built on a distortion from inspiring English sources
Certainly, no common future can be built on a distortion of history.
AIPAC officials had been close to him since the eighties, when he worked at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, and stuck with him when, in 1990, he was banned from the State Department for saying that U.S. policy was built "on a foundation of distortion and lies".
That is to say (and he says it), the right's success is built on a structure of "distortions".
Los Angeles is built on a desert.
More relevantly, when it comes to Europe, Johnson's career was all but built on wilful distortion.
The Justice Department memo "confirms that the government's drone killing program is built on gross distortions of law", said Pardiss Kebriaei, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights who challenged the Awlaki killing, who added that the "forced transparency comes years late".
In a competitive democracy, it is difficult to rescue a war built on distortions and illusions, because, to protect falsehoods proffered to voters in the past, a President and his advisers may find it tempting to manufacture more of them.
It builds on a successful strategy.
It builds on a similar 2001 review.
You can build on a point.
