Sentence examples for distorted debate from inspiring English sources

But by keeping the focus soft, as an established church must, the Church of England, which dominates this least authoritarian of associations, has blunted the contest of ideas and distorted debate within the Communion (and its own ranks).

Scholars are now watching the heated debate over the Securities and Exchange Commission to see how the American political system will respond to a recent crisis that some say has come right out of the distorted debate over litigation.

For all the farcical shenanigans they can generate, they do inflict real casualties — both at the micro level, on the lives of ordinary people, and at the national level, where, as we're seeing right now, a Supreme Court nominee's entire record can be reduced to a poisonous and distorted debate over her stand on the single culture-war issue of "don't ask, don't tell".

Despite the fact that the distorted American debate claims that everybody wins, in fact, globalization creates winners and losers.

(See here for more information. Mickey Kaus, himself no liberal, wrote that "she completely distorted the debate on the biggest public policy issue of 1994").. What's more, the point isn't all that relevant even if it's true.

But a formal legal conclusion issued many months from now will not undo the harm done when a sitting federal official takes to the pages of the Times to fan the flames of an already distorted and bitter debate.

What a contrast this was to countless other GOP addresses to national audiences, which have come across as shallow, partisan and often distorted accounts of policy debates.

The administration's recent comments about wiretapping tools "have distorted rather than enhanced" the debate over the law, said the letter, signed by Rand Beers, Richard A. Clarke, Lt. Gen. Donald L. Kerrick, retired, and Suzanne E. Spaulding, all of whom have served in senior intelligence capacities in recent years.

He added, "Need we really be as fearful of reliance on countries that we feel nervous about?" But perhaps the biggest obstacles to a consensus in this debate relate to distorted prices.

But the president has also played a central and insidious role in framing the budget debate in such distorted terms.

The level of tax paid by some multinational companies operating in the UK and the schemes used to reduce the tax bills of wealthy individuals have been the subject of much recent debate, and expose a distorted concept of fairness and accountability.