Sentence examples for serious distortion of from inspiring English sources

But this is a serious distortion of its record.

Charleroi's mayor, Paul Magnette, called it a "serious distortion of reality" and urged organisers to withdraw the award.

• To the Editor: Creating a body with the power to enforce national guidelines for treatment based on clinical and cost effectiveness would be a serious distortion of the comparative effectiveness research (CER) provisions of the health reform law.

"It is a serious distortion of what I said to the police and I have no further comment to make as that, no doubt, will be distorted," he said.

Furthermore, quantum effects are thought to cause a serious distortion of space-time at an extremely small scale called the Planck length, which is much smaller than the size of elementary particles.

Ellen Mittelman Scarsdale, N.Y., July 26, 2009 • To the Editor: Your assertion ("Partisan or Not, a Tough Course on Health Care," Political Memo, front page, July 26) that bipartisanship was "exhibited" in the enactment of Medicare is a serious distortion of the historical record.

The method of multiplicatively rescaling the probabilities (i.e. dividing all probabilities by their total) would lead to serious distortions of the results, so was not used.

Or are they a grave distortion of the system?

If the WTO does not move to bring some of these practices under GATT/WTO disciplines, they could create serious distortions to international trade.

In aged rats, both mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum of the hepatic cells showed serious distortion in shape as a result of exposures to hot environments.

In particular, this type of drift results in serious distortion and disturbing artifacts in the transcoded video stream.