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Di Natale suggested the advice was particularly perverse because the government had justified changes to dental health on the basis the old scheme was under-utilised.
It was his thinly veiled dig at Wall Street bankers and the perverse incentive system for corporate "advice" on mergers and acquisitions — namely that bankers are paid only if a deal is completed.
The judgment handed down, however, following a trial in June, was scathing about the company's application and Mole Valley District Council's decision to approve it against the advice of their officers, calling it "perverse".
But in an act of perverse adolescent recalcitrance, and leery of her mother's advice, she refused.
Under a metrics-based system, funding councils would still be able to convene expert panels to provide advice and to identify whether metrics produce perverse outcomes.
Very perverse.
The pattern is perverse.
But his advice on English usage — published in 1909 as "Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults" — is often mysterious, perverse and bizarre.
Consider the perverse incentives.
That would be perverse.
That may seem perverse.
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