Sentence examples for instance of perverse from inspiring English sources
But, in a textbook instance of perverse incentives, the ruling by the Second Circuit will discourage due diligence, because the less management knows about the sourcing employed by analysts and traders to generate investment ideas, the fewer people will face legal exposure.
The periods of quarantine were arbitrary and variable from country to country, and there were instances of perverse and bureaucratic application of the quarantine regulations.
The periods of quarantine were arbitrary and variable from country to country, and there were instances of perverse and bureaucratic application of quarantine regulations.
Its huge cost and complexity and the array of perverse incentives and their bizarre consequences (farmers, for instance, being paid handsomely to grow nothing) make it virtually impossible to construct a plan for enlargement that does not seem either grossly unfair or horrifyingly expensive.
He is possessed of perverse ambition and perverse nobility.
That is a piece of perverse reasoning.
It's really kind of perverse".
The revelation did have its moments of perverse fascination.
A kind of perverse echolocation — was that the word?
The report listed some potential unintended consequences of the wage raise: the exemption in the living-wage law for businesses with fewer than 25 employees, for instance, created "perverse incentives" for owners to keep their payrolls below 25 workers.
