Sentence examples for twisted language from inspiring English sources

Last year in the UK an employment tribunal ruled Uber drivers were employees, calling the company's self-employment argument "fictions" and "twisted language".

Uber resorted to "fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology" to portray their drivers as self-employed, they said, and ruled that it was "unreal to deny that Uber is in business as a supplier of transportation services".

Among the most unequivocal sections of the judgment were the following: Any organisation... resorting in its documentation to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology, merits, we think, a degree of scepticism.

It goes on to say it was struck by "the remarkable lengths" to which Uber has gone to try to compel agreement with its own definition of its company and the legal relationships between the various parties involved — describing it as "resorting in its documentations to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology" to try to advance its arguments.

He twisted language into pretzels and the opposition into knots.

Ali twisted language to suit his pugilistic purposes and transformed the political grammar of black identity.

The violent Bedbound was about "me finding a real love for my father"; the daughter's pell-mell use of language was a twisted amplification of Walsh's own.

Despite this plain wording, FERC has repeatedly tried to sell a twisted interpretation of the statutory language that limits the evidence and arguments not to a new review, but to an "administrative record"—a composition put together by FERC itself and nothing like the record compiled in U.S. courts under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

The EFF continues: "Congress has been clear that it wishes to end bulk collection, but given the government's history of twisted legal interpretations, [the new] language can't be relied on to protect our freedoms".

And then there's "Californication," with its graphic language and often-twisted situations.

Their lyrics, originating from the band's multicultural background, present a twisted mix of English, Russian, Romanian and Gagauzian languages.