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Warren's version was narrow: the laws shaping the economy had been perverted so that the country was congenial for the rich and brutal for the poor.

The old financial order had been "perverted" by "amoral" and uncontrolled capitalism, Mr. Sarkozy said, deploring the fact that, "the signs of wealth count more than wealth itself".

But in 415 he had a vision: a spirit appeared before him and told him that since the death of Zhang Ling (34?–156), the great founder of the Tianshidao, the movement had been perverted by false doctrines.

It was only because he believed that scriptural teaching had been perverted in the sacramental and moral theology of the Church of Rome, and the abuses which it gave rise to, that he dug his heels in and fired away.

He would do a collection based on the frenetic street style of, say, Lauryn Hill, yet what you were really looking at was a luxury label whose image had been perverted.

It seemed possible that he had indeed the soul of a governess, that he was indeed Jane Eyre and had been perverted by a Mr. Rochester who, disappearing in to self-kindled flames, had left him disenchanted and the prey of prim but inextinguishable remorse.

All decent human sentiment that is not suppressed outright seems to have been perverted.

But in reality, the theory has been perverted and distorted by advocates and detractors.

He dared to note that Islam is not the only religion to have been perverted to justify violence and atrocity.

In them, the sexual, romantic and celebratory impulses that usually fuel dancing have been perverted into something creepy and joyless.

The mortgage-interest subsidy in America is worth over $100 billion.Even Bagehot's own financial long-stop has been perverted into a subsidy.