Sentence examples for is being twisted from inspiring English sources

At the heart of the burkini row is the French principle of secularism, or laïcité, and whether it is being twisted for political gain.

If the industry introduces too many new products, cynics will argue that sharia is being twisted for economic ends the scholars are being paid for their services, after all.

One moment, your heart is being twisted, the next you wonder whether this show will do for Norway what was done for Finland by the Monty Python Fish-Slapping Dance.

"I have seen evil in the eyes of fatwas, at a time when the permitted is being twisted into the forbidden," she said, with only her microphone and her eyes visible against the uniform black of her burqa.

One of the oddest things about 2016, so far at least, is how economic common sense is being twisted in all sorts of ways to explain what's going on in the global economy.

Over all, the practice is seldom used, but grand juries by petition in Kansas have recently taken on new life, new targets and a host of new critics who say a law once meant to check official corruption is being twisted into a political weapon.

Before leaving, Hamsun said, "We believe in the Führer, but his wishes are being twisted".

He said the report was being twisted and manipulated to embarrass the government.

I remember the questions in my head: 'What is this, what is this?' as I'm being twisted and thrown down to the ground.

So if someone had the perception that your arm was being twisted by the U.S. government during this time, would that perception be wrong?

Mr. Masunda, the paper's current chief executive, said that innocent clerical errors were being twisted into something far more serious.