Sentence examples for perverse interpretation from inspiring English sources

They were denied asylum by a seemingly perverse interpretation of US asylum law.

But then began the wholesale violent suppression of the people, particularly women, under their perverse interpretation of Islamic law.

Under this perverse interpretation of the Clean Water Act, 2,000 miles of Appalachian streams have been interred under mining waste.

In testimony before the City Council last December, Ms. Stetzer said, "This perverse interpretation allows buildings that would be denied by the intent of the law".

It is, indeed, a perverse interpretation that reads the F.D.C.A. to require the ban of a device that has no safe therapeutic purpose where a ban is the most dangerous remedial alternative.

True, Nixon was given some bouncy melodies and the opera celebrates his finest hour - the 1972 visit to China to meet Mao Tse-tung - but this was a perverse interpretation of a work in which Nixon, Mao, Kissinger and Chou En-lai are seen to be at the mercy of history.

The courthouse invites similarly perverse interpretations.

Unless, perhaps, one's theology has been warped by the perverse interpretations of Islam that have been Al Qaeda's specialty.

Along the way, he won friends and alienated people in some unknowable ratio, developing a reputation for brilliance and arrogance, for infallible technique and perverse interpretations.

This is also the view of Peretz's ideological opposites, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett, who twist the facts into a remarkable contortion of perverse interpretations, narrow legalisms, and ill-informed suppositions to prove what they must have wanted to believe from the outset.

Widely regarded by former dissidents and activists as perverse, such interpretations were ruled legal in a 2010 Federal Supreme Court decision.