Sentence examples for distorted said from inspiring English sources

"This decision was made under pressure, the facts were distorted," said Timofei Chaly, who won the 400m hurdles.

"He does not deny the remarks, he just says first of all what he said was distorted," said Yves Charpentier, press counselor to the French Embassy.

There is a real danger the democratic underpinning of the planning system will be distorted," said Neil Sinden, policy director at CPRE.

"In case after case, scientific input to policymaking is being censored and distorted," said Neal Lane, a former director of the National Science Foundation and a former presidential science advisor.

"Because of the gang situation, the crack explosion and the riots, the public perception of Los Angeles is distorted," said Malcolm Klein, a USC sociologist who has written extensively about street gangs and crime.

"When you pay people for information, the information itself often becomes distorted," said Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, though she said she supported its Pulitzer entry.

Can a mathematical model of organ shape be made flexible enough to identify organs that have been grossly distorted — say, by the pressure of a tumor?

Israel rejected it as biased and distorted, saying that while mistakes were made in what was a complex battle zone, they were not intentional and did not constitute war crimes.

"Unlike the payments made to farmers for certain commodity production, conservation payments are considered nontrade distorting," said Representative Ron Kind, Democrat of Wisconsin.

Steven Milloy, an adjunct scholar at the conservative Cato Institute in Washington and the creator of a Web site called "Consumer Distorts," said Consumer Reports has a left-wing bias that has infected some of its product testing.

Hoden called the Times version of the documents "purposely distorted" and said they were designed only "to hold the church up to ridicule and contempt". He said church doctrine forbade any Scientologist from commenting on sacred writings.