Sentence examples for distorted to mean from inspiring English sources

Legislative words are warped and distorted to mean what industry wants them to mean.

Somehow, this good news about the faithfulness of God has been distorted to mean that God won't give us more than we can handle.

In this situation, their perception of a complaint against a colleague may have been distorted to mean otherwise or may have been addressed directly by another person thus minimizing the impact of such a complaint.

The assessment had talked darkly about "radical feminist" influences and "a distorted ecclesiological vision," by which the Vatican seemed to mean, mostly, that the nuns were not listening enough to bishops.

We might interpret the word yid'onim, then, to mean something that appears to help expand our awareness but does so in a warped or distorted way.

He takes this to mean that the ethical virtue of justice which their subjects are enjoined to cultivate traditionally seen as the necessary bond among citizens and the justification for political rule is in fact a distorted sham.

reCAPTCHA, for those unfamiliar, is the system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University to improve upon the use of CAPTCHAs (aka, the "Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart") – it's the distorted text meant to stop bots from signing up for online accounts.

He identified fake news as "false information based on non-existent or distorted data meant to deceive and manipulate the reader".

The resulting images are often grainy, blurry, or otherwise distorted, meant to capture the otherworldly quality of the material itself. .

"The maps were distorted to tell a political message.

Historical events are the starting point for the distorted memories Nossiter describes, but without a knowledge of that starting point, it's tough to tell what the distortions are meant to accomplish, whether they are coping mechanisms or lies.