Sentence examples for distortions from inspiring English sources

For 24.3% of the vote Labour returned just one Scottish MP - the same as the Liberal Democrats on 7.5%." Other distortions, the ERS says, were that Labour won just 8 seats in the south west and south east of England (outside London) despite gaining nearly a fifth of the share of the vote in those regions.

Thus, today's low interest rates are more a reflection of distortions in financial markets than of low growth expectations.

Despite their perpetuation by tabloids – and the odd home secretary – these tales are now mostly better known as myths, or at least as gross distortions.

Schiele's work was already expressionistic and daring, taking Klimt's safely decorative eroticism a bold leap further with his figurative distortions, mannered elongations and sexual frankness.

His "worst-case scenario", as reported in the Financial Times, is that "central banks could end up being accused of having failed twice – first by fuelling market distortions through loose monetary policy, and then by lacking the right tools to tackle them".

Your article (Hungary PM: bring back death penalty and build work camps for immigrants, 29 April) contains a number of serious inaccuracies and distortions regarding Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán's recent statements about the death penalty and immigration.

There are similar distortions in Wales.

But since most Americans have very few savings, that caveat sharply limits the potential expansion of employee share schemes, especially for poorer people.All this casts doubt on the merits of bigger government incentives to promote employee share ownership, especially in light of the cost and distortions inherent in any tax break.

Only ageing, dirty brown-coal power stations with low variable costs can compete.The result is a web of grotesque distortions.

The reality has been messier, marked by price distortions, political U-turns, surging costs and inadequate infrastructure.Businessmen say the Energiewende will kill German industry.

Exchanges avoid the distortions of price controls and put the onus on individuals, rather than government, to decide how to ration their health care.Start on a limited scale, by replacing civil-service health insurance with vouchers.