Sentence examples for perverse result from inspiring English sources

The perverse result is a ten-seat Republican majority.

Democracy, a good system that is following its normal rules, is producing a perverse result.

It would be a perverse result to extinguish debt simply because a debtor has not paid.

But the medical association said mandatory reporting could "have the perverse result of driving errors underground".

A perverse result is that the federal government now punishes states for having higher standards.

Such inequities are the perverse result of a "reform" process intended to bring choice and accountability to the school system.

But this produces perverse results.

Indeed, it may have had perverse results.

There could be perverse results, too.

This demonstrates that seemingly fair selection criteria can throw up some perverse results.

But the size of Mr Birkenfeld's award may have perverse results.