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The book, a best-seller, presented a scathing portrait of AIPAC, arguing that the lobby had a nearly singular distorting influence on American foreign policy, and even that it was a central factor in the rush to war in Iraq.

In 2007, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, two leading political scientists of the realist school, published a book called "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy". The book, a best-seller, presented a scathing portrait of AIPAC, arguing that the lobby had a nearly singular distorting influence on American foreign policy, and even that it was a central factor in the rush to war in Iraq.

The industry's self-censorship has already had a distorting influence on the portrayal of historical figures.

A strong theme running through the paper is the role of pressure groups and their distorting influence on policy and jurisprudence relating to human rights.

This emphasis on observation of natural behaviour-in-context affords insight into behavioural influences without the distorting influence of memory and psychological defense mechanisms.

Most people would probably choose the distorting influence of lobbyists on K Street over the all-consuming graft of Tammany Hall.

But I am nonetheless bothered by the disproportionate importance that the Academy Awards have taken on, and by the distorting influence they exercise over the way we make, market and see movies in this country.

The problem isn't the infinitesimal speck of buildings created by celebrity architects (some arresting, some almost comic in their dysfunction), but rather the distorting influence these projects have had on the values and ambitions of the profession's middle ranks.

Others see it as a source of excessive market power, personal enrichment, and influence over the State, with an ultimately distorting influence.

If we understand these facts about ourselves, we can more effectively pursue and realize normative goals such as non-violence or fairness by avoiding circumstances that lead to cruelty, or by watching for and correcting distorting influences on our judgment (Glover 2000; Appiah 2008, 49, 71 72, 110 11, 124).

The Treasury doesn't believe the BBC is a distorting influence.