Sentence examples for perverse impact from inspiring English sources

I end with a wonderful example of the perverse impact of "the cuts".

The Age of Stupid's neglect of these realities could have a perverse impact on the yet-to-be-persuaded filmgoer.

"However, I cannot support the bill because it will have the perverse impact of using American tax dollars to reward Russia," he said.

In this way efforts to support HIV treatment in drug detention centers have had the perverse impact of enabling the centers to detain HIV-positive drug users for more time.

The net change represented an insignificant part of trading activity in these stocks over the 17-day period.The SEC's action was not only pointless; it may have had a perverse impact.

This sorry news had the perverse impact of raising BBVA's core capital by about €400m because it increased the losses it can set aside against tax on future profits.Other banks are using similar techniques to boost capital.

"One of the most perverse impacts," Dr. Salins said, "is that increasingly under regulation the rents being paid bear little or no relationship to the quality of the apartment.

However, for incentive based regulation to deliver the desired outcomes it needs to be implemented in a comprehensive manner (both in terms of substance and process), or at least in a considered way, with any deviations from standard approaches understood in terms of the potentially perverse impacts or incentives that might arise.

Aid sceptics, such as William Easterly and Dambisa Moyo, have made a powerful case against not only the waste and perverse impacts of many misguided projects, but also the patronising and disempowering assumptions of "northerners" seeking to shoulder a new "white man's burden".

Among the more perverse impacts of sanctions has been to encourage Khartoum to look for friends elsewhere.

Is there the potential for perverse impacts on HIV spread from scale up of circumcision?