Sentence examples for perverse strategy from inspiring English sources

And though neither the Mexican hierarchy nor the Vatican wholly approves of the bishop, each closed ranks against government attempts to dislodge him.The bishop aims to hand the pope a document about the state's "perverse strategy" in Chiapas, and John Paul may have further stern words for Mr Zedillo when they meet in private.

It may sound like a perverse strategy, but the numbers bear it out.

Banning inheritance, he suggested, would lead parents to pursue perverse strategies in an effort to ensure their kids have a leg up on their neighbours' progeny.

In a conspiratorial universe, it's conceivable, barely, that the Grammy Awards have learned some perverse strategies from the likes of Steely Dan.

Anderson's perverse trial strategy was either to conceal the transcript of the child's statements to his grandmother, or to obscure the child's description of the killer, which Anderson knew would likely have doomed his prosecution.

Battening down the hatches until the situation clarifies will look to many like the safest institutional strategy, with the perverse side effect of actually reducing student opportunities.

Many Democrats can't help but express a perverse admiration for the cleverness of the strategy.

The PNAS article authors do not provide a practical strategy for overcoming the dense tangle of vested interests and perverse incentives that protect the current system. .

The government and the senior judiciary need to halt the downward drift in magistrate numbers and devise a strategy to save the magistracy, not enact one measure which may have perverse effects".

Thanks in part to the perverse economics of apartheid, Anglo's structure has long been convoluted, its finances opaque and its strategy unfocused.

"I think in a perverse way, you can say that, and that investors have short-term memories," said José M. Barrionuevo, director of emerging markets strategy at BNP Paribas.