Sentence examples for perverse position from inspiring English sources

An experience at the Silkroad Gallery perhaps best summarizes the perverse position of artists in Iran today.

Overall, the government finds itself in the perverse position that its best chance of hitting its net migration target is if the UK experiences a prolonged economic downturn.

The chancellor was in the perverse position of hoping for a hard landing in the US to justify his fiscal stance.

This drives him into the same perverse position he got himself into at the end of his attack on the deconstructionists: it is better to have rivals than to be dominant.

However, we're in the perverse position of the Inspectorate attempting to judge the financial situation of each force without the power to inspect the PCCs that make financial decisions!

The DoT's apparently perverse position was prompted by studies which found that, for passengers taking connecting flights with two airlines that are only loosely allied, each carrier has an incentive to ramp up the price on its leg of the journey, even if this results in lower overall demand for such flights.

These new rules have also created the perverse situation of putting US judges in the position of having to decide how much torture it too much.

That's a perverse situation.

The government's position is perverse.

Yet the opposite position is more perverse.

For Britons reared on the Churchillian narrative, for Americans who crossed the Atlantic to save Europe from Nazi barbarism, for Russians who see the defeat of Hitler as their finest moment, and most of all, for Jews to whom the Holocaust represents the apogee of evil, Ozols' position may seem perverse.