Sentence examples for perverse actions from inspiring English sources

SIR- Tim Bronstetter claims that the "perverse actions of Mao and Stalin" cannot be laid at Marx's feet (Letters, August 23rd).

The Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents the majority of Scotland Yard's 30,000 officers, criticised the IPCC for what it called the police watchdog's "catalogue of inappropriate comments and perverse actions".

The private sector that Ms. Zicarelli refers to is "sitting on the piles of cash" because of the uncertainty created by the incredibly perverse actions taken by radical members of Congress.

The workers across Europe in 1848, whom Marx gave voice to, were committed to doing away with the same system of privileges that liberals struggled against as well.Marx's predictions for the future were certainly off, but that hardly justifies laying at his feet the perverse actions of Mao and Stalin.

Third, a financial slump can inspire perverse government actions -- like raising interest rates to defend your exchange rate even as the real economy implodes.

Some attempts to understand these perverse and evil actions are similarly engaged, but for the most part our response to the hostage crisis that unfolded over 2014 was necessarily passive.

Occasionally we've seen these kinds of perverse incentives in action, and we don't much like it.

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom chimed in on Tuesday afternoon, calling any full cancellation of the ban on tobacco investments "about the most perverse course of action CalPERS can take".

That would give the E.C.'s actions a perverse result: discouraging American players, and actually harming competition in European markets.

In it he stated: "The decision is perverse in that the actions leading to this criminal charge were carried out with the full knowledge and support of (BLANKED OUT).

"The murderous actions of perverse and unrepresentative extremists will never overcome a free press which is so fundamental to the values of a democratic society".