Sentence examples for distorting values from inspiring English sources

A military industrial complex can form a part of a regular economy, as in the United States or Britain, she says, but in some places, like Indonesia or Pakistan, military business operates in the shadows, broadly distorting values.

The editorial said perpetrators had "developed distorted values and indulged themselves, hankering after cash and a life of luxury, so they were easily targeted by foreign intelligence services".

She says the immense amount of money now swilling around auction houses has distorted values: "Many reputations are made by how much money is spent; that doesn't have a whole lot to do with the long-term value of an artist".

Saatchi's critics, including artists who have benefitted from his patronage, argue that his buying power, his appetite for "the briefly new", has distorted values on the art market; others say that he has brought his ad agency values to the art world.

Short signal is a form of weak signal, and such an effect also would distort values for these bright spots slightly (Fig. 4).

In the studio she reflects long and hard on ways that age or damage can distort value.

We now have a clearer picture of how massive government intervention has distorted value, paralyzed private investment, slowed the recovery and kept unemployment high.

Rabbis, synagogue presidents, and other Jewish civic leaders regularly denounced Zuckerman for misrepresenting their religion and accused him of distorting Jewish values of community and solidarity for his own profit.

As a priest and pastor, I am grateful that bogus arguments distorting Christian values and deploying them as weapons of mass discrimination have been rejected by the highest court in the land.

According to the paper, inside information (asymmetric information) affects the discount rate of a venture, effectively distorting the value of equity lowering its value in the eyes of external investors (Tsai 2008).

No sooner did the H.D. phenomenon take off than opera traditionalists started worrying that the technology would distort musical values.