Hobbes feared that, because of his atheism, others might distort or censor the record.
Publishing-house fears have focused on predictions that Rowling's book might distort the market by selling on an unprecedented level.
However laudable that aim, using it to determine vice-chancellors' pay might distort admissions decisions.Previous administrations have struggled with this issue.
This approach might distort the music of some composers like Chopin and Mozart (though Chopin was more Bachian than generally assumed).
Construing the issue in terms of gifts and gratitude might distort the policy "model" for similar problems, including Iran and North Korea.
I was more focused on the way that the tax rules might distort the contract between the fund manager and their investors.
The French election commission prohibits the publication, within two days before an election, of any information that might distort the election's results.
I asked whether incentivizing science according to its marketability might distort the university's mission to nurture ideas on the basis of intellectual merit, regardless of commercial potential.
In Brussels, the European Commission proposed rules Wednesday aimed at toughening lender supervision, and approved the nationalization of the British lender Bradford & Bingley in a record 24 hours, brushing aside fears that the rescue might distort competition.
Even assuming that higher taxes might distort incentives, the authors concluded, negative effects are offset by positive effects that flow from productive government investments in things like health, education, infrastructure and support for mothers to join the labor force.
The other is that financial institutions make up their accounts at the calendar year-end, and so were there to be an adverse reaction to the rise in rates – it will be the first for five years – then that might distort the behaviour of the banks as they have to make sure that their accounts fit the various regulatory requirements.
