In the view of the mainstream clergy, this represented a distortion of the medium and a great injustice to the majority of Americans.
During the 9th-century power struggles, however, some administrative offices became hereditary, though this represented a distortion of the vassalic relationship.
Thomas DeFrantz, professor of dance at North Carolina's Duke University, has argued that recent museum/gallery performances in America, featuring choreography by Deborah Hay, Sehgal or Cunningham represent a distortion, even a stultification of what dance is.
LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, said on Tuesday that the effort to extradite him to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct represented a "distortion of evidence and fact".
For example, the view that death following CS is natural, could be considered in several respects to represent a distortion of the truth.
In fact, subjects might refuse to comply with a biochemical validation for a wide variety of reasons unrelated to smoking status, continuing to classify all these subjects as smokers would represent a distortion of the outcome data, resulting in a gross overestimate of smoking rates.
The effort to inculcate a "collective memory" – to suggest that just as Joan of Arc incarnated France's struggle against the English foreign invaders of her time, so too does today's Front National, this time against Muslims and other immigrants – represents a gross distortion of history.
In his interpretation, Paul's narrative represents a late distortion of the Germanic myths and rituals contained in the oral tradition.
A positive score therefore represents a positive distortion bias, participants judging that they performed more trials correctly than they actually did (for full task details, see B. D. Dunn et al., 2007).
