Sentence examples for perverse rules from inspiring English sources

By Louis Menand "Leave nothing out" is one of the perverse rules of diary-keeping.

BP operates in one of the most regulated industries on earth with some of the most perverse rules, subsidies and incentives.

This strikes at the very heart of the system, not only by using its own perverse rules against it, but critically by revealing the illusory and circular nature of debt.

And last week, there was Mr. Bush in Greenville, S.C., happily touting "our ideas, Republican ideas, conservative ideas" at Bob Jones University, which maintains its perverse rules against the mingling of races and its disgusting hostility to the Catholic religion.

The 17th Pere Ubu studio album, Lady from Shanghai, is accompanied by a lengthy primer on the album's conception and making, which employed a kind of musical "Chinese whispers": members recorded their parts in isolation, unrehearsed but according to Thomas's quite particular and faintly perverse rules, aiming for some magical, paradoxical midpoint between the written song and pure improvisation.

Increasingly, corporations are using these perverse rules in trade deals to challenge energy and climate policies, including a moratorium on fracking in Quebec and a nuclear energy phase-out in Germany.

There is a perverse rule in admissions that as you make it harder to get into a program, you often find yourself getting more applicants, which just feeds the ability to raise the standards.

As such, that derivative had to be booked as a $4.7 billion liability, calculated by subtracting the value of the company's shares after the rights issue opened on March 20, to when it closed on April 3. "It's a perverse rule," said an HSBC spokesman.

The commission concluded that the ability of the New York area's ports to compete for cargo shipments is threatened by the pervasive influence of organized-crime families and the perverse work rules the longshoremen's union has maintained.

But for milder problems, the rules create perverse incentives.

Without tough food safety rules, a perverse economic incentive guides the marketplace.