Sentence examples for numbers distorted from inspiring English sources

Other critics suggested that these "mass shooting" numbers distorted the debate over gun violence and gave Americans the impression that the kind of planned attacks they saw on the news were happening every day.

But their disproportionate numbers distort reality.

Indeed, federal spending rose from 19.6% of GDP in 2007 to 23.8% in 2010 (it was briefly 25 in 2009, but that was a number distorted by the financial bailouts).

The Ravens' defensive numbers might be a bit distorted.

Mr. Miller said that those numbers were distorted by a huge drop in activity.

Their conclusion is that the numbers were distorted in the melee associated with the run-up to the year 2000.

The increase in their share of global energy consumption, from 43% in 1980 to 55% in 2006, also confirms that their weight in the world economy has surely risen.The raw dollar numbers are distorted by big currency swings.

In the third quarter, depending on whether you trust the numbers of Morgan Stanley or Merrill Lynch, the profits of S&P 500 companies were down by 2.8% or 8.5% respectively on the previous year.Optimists might argue that the third-quarter numbers were distorted by the problems of the banking industry and the huge write-downs taken by the likes of Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.

In fact, most of these numbers are distorted... or they're straight-out untruths.

Politically, Facebook is still full of accusatory, 'I hate Republicans / Democrats / Obama / MitchMcConnell', etc. posts, often with little relation to truth; a significant number are distorted, others true but hatefully presented.

Overall, only 5 percent of Americans use public transit to get to work and that number is somewhat distorted by the huge numbers of people in cities who commute by subway, train or bus.