" Another move to normalization by the Fed "gives people a sense we're not distorting interest rates; we're not distorting asset valuations, he said.
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We call for the start of negotiations – this year – to develop stronger, international rules on market-distorting industrial subsidies and trade distorting actions by state-owned enterprises.
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Related columns: - Is Aramco share sale distorting OPEC policy?
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He risks distorting markets, reducing exports, and slowing job creation.
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This is done by distorting the characters in his paintings.
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She has accused them of lying and distorting the facts.
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A badly designed tax code reduces growth by distorting incentives.
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Cyborg is apparently done distorting herself to prove her legitimacy.
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Such market mechanics may be distorting the underlying market signal.
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No. I especially wouldn't if they were distorting international markets.
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A desperate optimism arose from wishful thinking bias, distorting judgment.
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Partly, of course, by distorting the public's perception of Obamacare.
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But some critics say it is just distorting the market.
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Basically, the media is distorting the facts on this lady.
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"It was distorting the development of the doctrine," Markowitz explains.
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But so far, these AR filters mostly focus on distorting selfies.
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Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world.
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The producers were criticized by Doc Shirley's family for distorting facts.
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However disliked they are, they are some of the least distorting.
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The Chinese new-year celebrations may have had a distorting effect.
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Temporary tax giveaways are inefficient and unfair, corrupting and economically distorting.
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Current WTO rules limit U.S. trade distorting support to $28503 billion.
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You're effectively displacing liquid crystal molecules and thereby distorting the image.
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Republicans are pushing back, accusing Democrats of distorting the judge's words.
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As much as this is distorting, it also can be empowering.
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It's distorting the tart cherry industry, and it needs to stop.
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Distorting drops of water pinpricked my face in the basin's mirror.
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But some on the right are distorting what the procedure is.
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Then a computer program randomly adds some distorting "noise" to the photo.
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There are already initial indications of distorting effects on competition, he added.
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He accused Evers and Democrats of distorting his position on preexisting conditions.
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It will also aim to remove trade- distorting tariffs, the government said.
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Second, they are grossly distorting history to fit their own preconceived notions.
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Even some of his cardinals believe he is distorting the church's teaching.
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One was modern, perfectly transparent; the other old, with small distorting flaws.
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Economists like taxes to be simple and to avoid unintentionally distorting behaviour.
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Amazon has accused Oracle of distorting the facts and making baseless claims.
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But Ms Warren's levy would be crude, distorting and hard to enforce.
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Striking a fiery tone, Biden accused the reporter of distorting Trump's words.
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Each accused the other of misleading the public and distorting the facts.
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She adds that photos are likely distorting the appearance of his teeth.
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"Gladwell's insistence on theory can be distorting, rather than clarifying," she wrote.
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It "picks winners," thus distorting economic incentives (or so the story goes).
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Michael Phelps complained that the suits were distorting swimmers' true skill and ability.
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That is belittling, distorting and an insult to the victims of Nazi Germany.
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Earlier in the week she called out fan art for distorting her body.
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Others save capital inflows in sovereign-wealth funds to avoid distorting their economies.
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Economists like taxes to be simple, progressive and to avoid unintentionally distorting behaviour.
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CoreCivic says the activists are distorting the company&aposs role in immigration detention.
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"Excess capacity has a distorting and damaging effect on global markets," he said.
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Still, Hua accused U.S. politicians of intentionally distorting their assessments and spurring clashes.
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Like spoiled milk, market-distorting dairy industry handouts need to be thrown out.
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The firm had bought back $6.7 billion worth of stock, distorting reported figures.
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"Government should get out of the business of distorting business decisions," Issa said.
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This is not to say that all sides are equally distorting the situation.
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Trump's actions would appear to dwarf any market-distorting effects from the bank.
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Such hysteria becomes pathological and unwieldy, distorting good sense and turning introspection outward.
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This is where Gladwell's insistence on theory can be distorting, rather than clarifying.
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It might mean seeking to limit the price-distorting power of hospital monopolies.
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Facebook doesn't want false news distorting voters' decisions ahead of the 2020 elections.
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This trend is distorting the definition of success in a free-market economy.
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From a distance, with the featureless lakebed distorting perspective, it looks like a 737.
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It also risks distorting intelligence community assessments to avoid the wrath of political disfavor.
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Maps are also used as propaganda tools, distorting certain features or pushing particular messages.
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He says this is further distorting pricing and adding to an already sticky situation.
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A lawyer filed suit against the show's producers, accusing them of distorting Fayoum's image.
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But it was distorting Britain's democratic norms and open society in more subtle ways.
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Face-distorting masks seem like a smart way to lure folks to Facebook Live.
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Maladaptive defenses always come at a cost, robbing victims of vitality, while distorting reality.
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We want to walk the streets without covering my face and distorting my voice.
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Prior carbon tax proposals that would apply to oil have been blunt and distorting.
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When they are networked, bots can play a big role in distorting ticket prices.
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Smart analysts are working to sort out distorting effects of questions and poll design.
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The messaging interface can take a while to load, distorting texts into cryptic pixels.
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"Their claims of China lacking openness and transparency are simply fact-distorting," he said.
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Filtered through a distorting lens, his view of Kailash feels surreal; the mood depressed.
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With no widely acknowledged media gatekeeper, politicians have an easier time distorting the truth.
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I'm disappointed the Democrats are distorting the facts to impugn Attorney General Sessions's character.
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While these dividends are very real, they risk distorting the rationale for the work.
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By distorting reality so relentlessly, he has put everyone on alert for alternative facts.
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President Trump also has expressed an unfortunate preference for distorting the legal playing field.
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USTR SAYS STRONG ACTION IS NEEDED TO CONVINCE EU TO END MARKET-DISTORTING SUBSIDIES
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All of this is distorting American politics and weakening our two-party political system.
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I'm referring to the more insidious business of distorting discourse and influencing public opinion.
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"China is deliberately distorting the truth," spokesman Dilxat Raxit said in an emailed statement.
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This is plainly and clearly distorting constitutional rights to justify discrimination against a LGBT people.
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He screams at the top of his lungs, his voice distorting to even weirder lengths.
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The deal looks good for America only through the distorting prism of the president's mercantilism.
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At times, observing county-level election data can be as distorting as it is illuminating.
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The new Playoff — and even a possible expanded one — will inevitably result in distorting upsets.
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Trump seems at home distorting narratives to fit any particular moment, and it's downright horrifying.
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Pruitt's proponents, though, say greens, in Congress and out of it, are distorting his record.
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Since 2008, the use of protectionist, trade-distorting policies and regulations has indeed increased worldwide.
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Opener "Walk Away" finds Giannascoli distorting, looping, and layering his voice in increasingly unsettling ways.
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There is no real justification for distorting their fiscal decisions one way or the other.
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They are also concerned by China's overcapacity in the steel sector and market-distorting subsidies.
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But claims that Boeing is subsidized in a prohibited market-distorting manner are patently false.
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Brazil's actions ultimately nudged the United States toward agriculture policy that was less trade-distorting.
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As for the long-run, we'll eventually learn whether distorting trade relationships was worth it.
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King continued to stand by his comment and insisted critics were distorting what he said.
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Under the regulations, Thais must express their opinions with "polite words ... without distorting the facts".
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The claim is that rates have been "artificially" depressed by central banks, "distorting" the economy.
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This (same-sex union) is destroying the institution of marriage and distorting our family values.
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These discounts keep vacancies down across the board, but can end up distorting the market.
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But analysts say that the deposit rate cannot go much lower without distorting money markets.
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Go deeper: The two-faced freelance economy The gig economy is distorting U.S. economic data
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The one option that should not be on offer is hiding or distorting the truth.
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Distorting market fundamentals through tariffs will cost jobs and economic investment in the United States.
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The U.S. official at the meeting said China was using the WTO system as a shield for trade-distorting policies, and China was damaging the world trading system through "grossly unfair and trade-distorting forced technology transfer policies and practices and through this unfounded dispute".
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First, aid has corroded Liberia from the top, by distracting ministers and distorting the government's plans.
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Already some TSOs are complaining to FERC that state energy policies are distorting their wholesale markets.
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But instead of reporting this danger the media could not resist deliberately distorting and mischaracterizing it.
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Mady told People that he's distorting their situation — the twins don't speak to him by choice.
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Here, especially in a comical-terrifying scene of macho display, the speed is aggressive and distorting.
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Lacking the same resources, smaller startups blame the giants for distorting the market for high-flyers.
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But Castoriadis is intensely aware of the distorting lenses through which posterity has studied classical Greece.
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Public perception of on-demand workers The gig economy is distorting U.S. economic data Demanding tasks
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As Einstein realised, gravity is a result of mass distorting the space and time around itself.
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They examine how Facebook promotes more emotional posts over mundane ones, distorting users' sense of reality.
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He pulls off playing drastically different characters with the help of a distorting Photo Booth filter.
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A punchy, room-filling boombox that you could crank high without distorting, but a boombox nonetheless.
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Again, it is hard for me to separate all this from the distorting power of memory.
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This is not about Michael Cohen distorting people over taxis or Paul Manafort's 2005 tax case.
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Our poor tax policies are distorting economic behavior and incentivizing companies to move their operations overseas.
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Much of that remains unclear, because the internet is distorting our collective grasp on the truth.
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Were they distorting success into failure, or was failure being distorted into victory by the military?
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In 2016, the most recent year reported, U.S. trade distorting support was less than $5 billion.
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Some investors accuse the Vision Fund of distorting the funding market by inflating start-up valuations.
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It spread like wildfire, distorting facts into outlandish fictions, despite being attributed only to obscure sources.
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PJM managers are grumbling about all the subsidies, complaining that they are distorting the energy market.
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What he does with the paint — the combinations and the distorting of bodies — just floors me.
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Democrats counter that the GOP is politicizing intelligence and distorting facts of the Trump-Russia investigation.
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The higher this cap is set, the less distorting (and therefore more pointless) the policy becomes.
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Signatories must ensure that when they regulate they do so in the least trade distorting manner.
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Its huge asset purchases have also drawn criticism, even from some BOJ policymakers, as distorting markets.
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And it's how reality-distorting propaganda undermines the reasoned deliberation that is so essential to democracy.
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It is the companies that aren't being charged for CO2 pollution that are distorting the market.
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"You are distorting the market, damaging the environment and delivering preferential treatment to favored industries," Rep.
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Roach blames central banks for "distorting asset prices across the spectrum" over the past several years.
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Memory, as we know all too well, is a distorting prism through which to see anything.
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Forcing internet companies to takedown extremist content has a sanitizing (and thus distorting effect) on political discourse.
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It gives us agency over our image, which the world is so intent on distorting and abusing.
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By downplaying the dangers of feral cats, animal advocacy groups are distorting science just like climate deniers.
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This conservative, five-justice bloc is distorting electoral politics to make it even harder to be represented.
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Expectations have also been raised by moves since 2014 to curb competition-distorting behaviour by local governments.
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Seoul's defense ministry said Russia was "distorting the truth" and it had evidence to support its claim.
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It secures your phone and magnifies the screen up to triple its size without distorting the quality.
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DeSiano adds to the sense of estrangement by distorting the scale and perspective of the historical images.
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"This is one of the most common ways graphs misrepresent data — by distorting the scale," Gaslowitz explains.
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For policymakers, therefore, the priority is to make corporate taxes less distorting and less easy to avoid.
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Normally economists worry about applying different rates of tax to similar products, for fear of distorting behaviour.
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Comfort told me the key is to simplify without distorting, a challenge that requires time and research.
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It would be better to enforce rules against market-distorting subsidies for any firms, foreign or domestic.
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Such market-distorting incentive payments, which Didi also plowed into the market, may further complicate the investigation.
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He repeatedly points his finger in Pollak's face and speaks angrily at him for distorting Trump's remarks.
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It features a set of swirling synths, spiraling out into multiple directions and further distorting the sound.
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The distorting power of celebrity isn't particularly novel or surprising when it infiltrates events like this one.
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Trump also tries to place the blame on the media, accusing the "Fake News" of distorting reality.
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Admittedly, my bitterness over the Orioles' dismal play this season might be distorting my perspective a little.
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"The census data is distorting the on-the-ground realities of ethnicity and race," Dr. Alba said.
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There are lots of ways to address these equity concerns without blunting or distorting efficient price signals.
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The statement said the industry was "distorting social values" and "fostering money worship tendencies" with outsize compensation.
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A day later she became more aggressive, distorting her lips and mottling her skin with digital soot.
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But the endless construction has also created a self-perpetuating gravy train, feeding corruption and distorting priorities.
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Dai Zhifeng, a banking analyst with Zhongtai Securities, said the funding difficulties risked distorting small banks' behavior.
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But it lends weight to the idea that managerial incentives can have distorting effects on business performance.
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Start with abuse of office for personal advantage or gain, directly aimed at distorting the electoral process.
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They could see how innovations in technology, capitalism, and media were distorting our shared sense of truth.
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It's similar in premise to Snapchat's face-distorting lenses or the masks that Facebook launched this year.
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She projects the slides onto rippling curtains, distorting images of powerful men in uniform and intimidating armaments.
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And China is the 8,000-pound gorilla when it comes to such self-interested and trade-distorting tactics.
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Both candidates have accused the other of distorting their records on health care in an increasingly heated contest.
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But these artists are also distorting his ideas by inflating them to pop-corporate scale (proportions are everything).
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China needs to aggressively address market-distorting forces, including subsidies and state-owned enterprises, the Treasury statement said.
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U.S. officials say that 16 years of WTO membership has failed to end China's market-distorting state practices.
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The methods they mention involve targeting divisive issues, frequently changing their usernames and amplifying and distorting the conversation.
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It's more of a fun house mirror, distorting and exaggerating its subjects to sometimes funny, sometimes frightening effect.
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"Giant firms at the center of the American economy are distorting the market and our politics," Reich concludes.
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And here, they're distorting the normal process just outside the room where real foreign policy should take place.
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In addition, the blueprint highlights the damage that ObamaCare has caused through higher taxes and market-distorting incentives.
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"You still have hurricane effects distorting the wages," said Michael Schumacher, director of rate strategy at Wells Fargo.
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"Margins are tight ... whenever the market moves from contango to backwardation, that's a slightly distorting effect," Beard said.
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"It's about the effect it has in distorting the market of footballers on a European level," he said.
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Trump and those who remain around him, by consistently distorting the truth, are making the 2020 choice easy.
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The metaphors here, located securely in the past, measure the gap between one's "distorting" reflection and one's self.
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However, as Shadia Drury has clarified, Kojève was interpreting Hegel's complex philosophical ruminations through a distorting Nietzschean lens.
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THE SMALL figures hidden under green cloaks shuffle forward and give their testimony through a voice-distorting funnel.
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Disorienting opener "Walk Away" clouds things even further, with Giannascoli pitch-shifting, looping, and distorting his own voice.
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Fake news writers and conspiracy curators are not-so impartial translators, distorting information, misrepresenting statistics for their agendas.
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She is uninterested in belittling or distorting her figures, showing how much power she can exert over them.
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Childhood has a way of distorting your perception of a decade; adulthood corrects that distortion with a humbling rapidity.
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Carson says Democratic leaders stepped into a trap laid for them by Republicans and conservative media distorting Omar's comments.
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Its nostrils act as seats for people to look out through distorting glass, altering their sense of the world.
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We would have preferred if she avoided the smoky eye joke; Sanders' history of distorting facts is material enough.
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Other elected Republicans professed a loose command of the facts or sidestepped questions by accusing reporters of distorting them.
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The government "had much more to do" with causing that catastrophe by distorting risk in private markets, she said.
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That assumes that the public has no concern about learning when a candidate is exaggerating, distorting or fabricating information.
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His ratings on a 33-point scale would cause prices to jump or dive, distorting markets (see chart 23).
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Such grievances allege market-distorting subsidies, the coerced surrender of proprietary technology and the trampling of intellectual property rights.
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The grooves in the road, however, were not installed at the right distance from each other, distorting the sound.
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In a post on Twitter, Trump lauded the summit's outcome, and the group's commitment to eliminating trade-distorting practices.
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That's one way to describe shitposting, which is essentially high volume trolling aimed at confusing and distorting the conversation.
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For decades our image has been used by advertising to sell, distorting it at the whim of the market.
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Google says it designed the speaker to get loud enough to fill a room without distorting at full volume.
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I would be the older guy remembering his wild days, and the memory is always distorting a little bit.
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In order to prevent theatres' capacity limits from distorting our estimates, we split up our model into three segments.
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Artists can respond by reflecting and distorting this new visual field, like the painters Jacqueline Humphries and Laura Owens.
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Most of their remaining efforts focused on hiding and distorting the full costs of care, rather than reducing them.
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But the Trump administration has gone farther than that, ignoring and egregiously distorting facts as justifications for flawed policies.
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"It's hard to justify distorting a tax system so that it favors one industry over another," Mr. Boyd said.
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More personally, Ryan's vowed to speak out whenever he sees Trump distorting the GOP's core conservative values and principles.
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For more than two decades, two currencies have legally circulated in Cuba at multiple exchange rates, distorting the economy.
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While we welcome this result, we now expect the G85033 countries to reduce market-distorting subsidies transparently and reliably.
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China's WTO membership agreement permits trade-distorting subsidies of up to 8.5 percent of the total value of production.
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"This part of history has always been affecting us, distorting us and reshaping us," he said in an interview.
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Your book is about spotting the common rhetorical tricks that politicians use when they're distorting science for political purposes.
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Instead, several established conspiracy subcultures are twisting facts, distorting narratives, or just making things up to push their agendas.
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"I guess I enjoy distorting the human face," Griggs tells Creators about his new, face-melting image series, Deformations.
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A master of disguises, she frequently changed her hair color, and sometimes used distorting dentures and other theatrical tricks.
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As former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke told Vox earlier this month, those divisions are distorting Americans' economic assessments.
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But her voice also stuttered like a skipping record, the bending of her body distorting the sound, revealing pain.
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But it looked to me like the same distorting effect of social media I'd seen in any other country.
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Tactics like these have become increasingly common, but also raised concerns in the industry about distorting the weekly charts.
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But it lends even more weight to the idea that managerial incentives can have distorting effects on business performance.
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During his campaign for president, he tried to terrify Americans by distorting issues such as immigration and refugee resettlement.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Audi cars with automatic transmissions have technology capable of distorting emissions when they are tested, Volkswagen (VOWG_p.
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" Weil's office issued a two-page statement on Sunday denying the charges and calling the report "distorting and misleading.
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The BOJ also buys exchange-traded funds, a policy which has come under criticism for distorting underlying stock prices.
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Several thousand people took part in Modi's rally where he accused the opposition of distorting facts to trigger protests.
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Bits and pieces of fake news may be mixed with truth, distorting our perception of what is actually real.
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It's simultaneously diabolical and simple: Greatly exaggerate your enemies' behavior while removing, distorting, or ignoring the context surrounding it.
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Yet it is virtually taboo to bring up, in mainstream discourse, any of the distorting aspects of our governmental structure.
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"Fuelled by human-made greenhouse-gas emissions, global warming is probably distorting the natural patterns," he wrote in a statement.
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Another plan to force fuel retailers to get government approval before changing prices has been criticized as distorting the market.
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Gross, who co-founded Pacific Investment Management Co, also lambasted central bank policies for distorting Wall Street and Main Street.
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The distorting effect of large inflows of this kind of wealth into the Bay Area's communities is hard to overstate.
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The UCS' Halpern wrote in a blog post that Pruitt's actions were grossly distorting the meaning of conflicts of interest.
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The tool works by slightly distorting someone's face, and was able to fool state-of-the-art facial recognition systems.
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One frequently-cited example is the role that tobacco industry-funded scientists played in distorting the health consequences of smoking.
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That was particularly distorting because that gauge was "a Flintstones index from an abacus age," due to its arbitrary inclusions.
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It also increases the likelihood of market-distorting arbitrage strategies, which the PBOC has shown signs of being concerned about.
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Go deeper: The new gig: America's hidden economy On-demand economy workers The gig economy is distorting U.S. economic data
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Finally, this tortured light — some 54 million years old — traveled through our planet's thick atmosphere, again distorting this cosmic energy.
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Schumer and Booker are deliberately misrepresenting and distorting an article that Kavanaugh – wrote in the Minnesota Law Review in 2009.
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It is unseating us as masters of our own destinies and distorting the fabric of reality as we know it.
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The political imperative to keep oil prices high to achieve a satisfactory valuation may be distorting the decision-making process.
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Commodity producers and consumers have long blamed "speculators" for distorting prices that should be set by physical supply and demand.
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The federal government should end this distorting practice by requiring state legislatures to cede their redistricting power to independent commissions.
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Global central banks are "distorting markets" and making investors "do things we and they 're going to regret," he said.
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The Democratic media pundits have been distorting the discussion by misdirecting public attention and false accusations of crimes against Trump.
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Above a particular volume, the bass on the QC 35 completely falls apart, distorting so badly that they sound broken.
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In contrast, other nations freely use market distorting price controls and other heavy handed government policies within their health systems.
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Brazil accused Canada of distorting the global aerospace industry with subsidies for Bombardier when it opened the complaint in February.
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Watch CNN's "Distorting the Truth," about how a Russian government-linked group exploited the death of Philando Castile, on CNNgo.
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It's a reflection of our ideals and aspirations and insecurities -- and that can be as distorting as any photo filter.
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I had to make someone else's thoughts reflect my own, distorting and twisting the meaning to create something completely new.
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Distorting reality and finding humor in commonplace things under the lens of absurdity is Ambera Wellmann's bag, without a doubt.
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"It is now clear that the WTO rules are not sufficient to constrain China's market-distorting behavior," the report said.
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That it was one of those things men had been doing to women forever with such disastrous and distorting results?
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" One panelist, disguised with a mask and a wig, and using a voice-distorting microphone, said, "I am a homosexual.
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The water creates a lot of noise, distorting the data, and we need to be able to pick through that.
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A lot of scratches and blotches, and overly high contrasts that deepen the blacks into nothingness while distorting the whites.
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It ends up crowning some figures and crowding out others, distorting a reality that's far richer and messier in practice.
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Japan denied the claim, accusing South Korea of distorting facts, according to Japanese news reports that quoted officials in Tokyo.
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For a while, it looked as if she wanted it so much that it was distorting her normally efficient play.
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It was not, Miller said, a result of his right knee affecting his lengthy stride or distorting his pitching mechanics.
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A distorting mirror: the women she chooses to photograph are typically larger and more voluptuous than the slender Ms. Lawson.
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All of this works to further various political agendas while also skewing and distorting the reality around the film's production.
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The practice, known as prestagnation flushing, can clean the pipes of soluble lead and lead particles, possibly distorting the results.
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Of late, the argument has been made that the rise of machines and passive investing is distorting the broader market.
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While we know that opponents of American democracy are bent on distorting and discrediting our elections, our response is stymied.
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In a statement, it said its goal was to make sure there were no "practices distorting competition" in this market.
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With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!
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The government removed the sales prices for affordable housing from the latest monthly calculations, distorting comparisons with previous months' growth data.
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But the survey, designed to give the military insight into the mental health of its personnel, can wind up distorting it.
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Now, macrophiles get off mostly on internet videos and photo collages, distorting sizes with the help of Photoshop and heavy editing.
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Even those Northerners who know Rodong Sinmun is distorting the news, says Mr Lee, struggle to understand what is really happening.
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Brown's daughters previously told the president to stop distorting the meaning of their father's poem to push his anti-migrant message.
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The weak correlation is likely to be largely attributable to the distorting influences of transitional measures and equivalence on S2 ratios.
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Because meditation focuses on calming and clearing the mind, it can remove some of the distorting effects caused by our emotions.
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So does Pruitt simply misunderstand the language of the Paris agreement, or is he intentionally distorting semantics to bolster his narrative?
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Distorting familiar tropes from beginning to end, "Found a Job" is an entrepreneurial success story presented as a self-help parable.
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This can cause extra pressure on the back of the eyeballs, which could flatten, pushing the retinas forward and distorting sight.
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Gerrymandering is back in the news and being blamed for all sorts of ills, from distorting representation to creating government dysfunction.
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This influx of Chinese cash is also causing headaches for Hong Kong authorities to handle, distorting asset prices in the city.
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My S&M, from whatever process I am engaging, is my way of subverting dominant paradigms and radically distorting belief systems.
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As U.S. negotiators clash with Beijing over distorting subsidies, chips are a reminder of how these grand plans can fall flat.
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"The commercial success of products and services should be driven by their merits and not by market-distorting actions," Muilenburg said.
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And finally, initiate immediate government-to-government negotiations with China to address the trade distorting practices that drive structural aluminum overcapacity.
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Often this leads to squeaking noises and the rain or snow is not cleared effectively, causing buildup and distorting forward vision.
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Kuroda also dismissed criticism made by some analysts that the BOJ's purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETF) were distorting financial markets.
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Traders respond to the restrictions and fees by over-wagering on long shots, slightly distorting the prices from the underlying values.
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But without the distorting effects of unusual early states, we'd know better whether the party really did prefer its consensus winner.
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They see only the consequences of power — and this through distorting lenses — and have no chance to observe its actual machinery.
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She was accused on Tuesday of distorting the truth and spreading propaganda against the state, according to the Vietnamese news media.
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"Christian nationalism seeks to merge Christian and American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America's constitutional democracy," the statement reads.
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The United States alleged that China excessively subsidizes rice, wheat and corn, encouraging farmers to grow more and distorting world markets.
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"What Sam Rainsy did was an act of distorting truth, affecting the prime minister's reputation," said Ky Tech, Hun Sen's lawyer.
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Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
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For instance, the Mercator projection preserves the shape of countries while distorting the size, especially near the north and south pole.
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Tissot For a more accurate view of land area look at the Gall-Peters projection, which preserves area while distorting shape.
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But having a bit of inflation seems to grease the wheels of the economy while not distorting economic decisions too much.
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But that boost was distorting: Financial gains were increasingly shoveled upward, while the growing list of social risks were shoveled downward.
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We had become aware that academic researchers were receiving large payments from drug companies and that it was distorting their work.
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A stronger support system, such as tax credits that insure against increasing rents, could offer protection without distorting the housing market.
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"The commercial success of products and services should be driven by their merits and not by market-distorting actions," he said.
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Does the journalistic principle of neutrality doom you to the bland and ultimately distorting vocabulary of "both sides" and "racially tinged"?
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The signaling functions of news brands and the cultural barriers meant to guard against distorting effects of advertising have broken down.
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The congressional report found "widespread dissatisfaction" among analysts at Tampa-based Central Command who felt their superiors were distorting their research.
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It involves not just stealing public money, but distorting public spending and policy priorities by taking illicit money from private business.
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EU state aid rules prohibit EU countries from distorting the level playing field by giving tax benefits to a select few.
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State aid may be authorized under certain conditions when it contributes to an objective or common interest without unduly distorting competition.
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Those who try to put him in a box invariably reveal their own bias by either reducing Graham or distorting him.
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The hackers then broke into the website, took information from it and are distorting it on social media, the company said.
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"We should include provisions to guard against market-distorting practices of other countries, including third-party dumping and state-owned enterprises."
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As in many classic musicals, the authors of "The Prom" begin by holding a distorting mirror up to the theater itself.
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"It's disappointing to learn a provision in the tax reform bill is distorting the grain markets," Roberts said in a statement.
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He and others routinely placed orders that were quickly cancelled before the trades were executed, a price-distorting practice known as spoofing.
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Only in Britain are the two traditional parties still strong, but they only have their country's profoundly distorting electoral system to thank.
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But the hype and misrepresentations that come with elections risk distorting their judgement on critical issues bearing on our democracy and economy.
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Laura Hudson, culture editor: There's no shortage of haunted house tales or body-horror stories about distorting and violating the human form.
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HudBay has also brought its fight out of the courtroom, using its website to accuse the activists of distorting and omitting facts.
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Go deeper: The new gig: America's hidden economy Public perception of on-demand workers The gig economy is distorting U.S. economic data
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It encouraged higher demand for care, regardless of cost, while distorting insurance into covering almost all services, greatly increasing health care costs.
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At one point, halfway through a song called "Distorting a Code," it starts playing backwards, but it's hard to even really notice.
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I can feel the people I love distorting and then disappearing above the surface of it all, like angels or refracted light.
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The spokesperson said the tariffs are designed to discourage China's "market-distorting actions" and defend the United States from unfair trade practices.
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Read MoreLow-paying jobs distorting the bigger picture The March nonfarm payrolls report and ISM manufacturing data are both due Friday morning.
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" He called Twitter "the political pornography of our time: revealing but distorting, exciting but dulling, debasing to its users, and, well, ejaculatory.
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That may in turn be distorting levels of anxiety in the rich world about everything from stagnant incomes to disappointing productivity growth.
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These issues limit the competitiveness of US businesses in China while further distorting global markets, and we're long overdue for change. 3.
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Back then, the shadow banking system was the marginal price setter, distorting market prices; now central banks are playing a similar role.
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The Republican report found "widespread dissatisfaction" among analysts at Tampa-based U.S. Central Command who felt their superiors were distorting their research.
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In a tweet from earlier this month, he accused CNN of distorting his words while praising Fox News for treating him fairly.
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On the other hand, you have Donald Trump, a populist obsessed with forcing China to buy more goods — a market-distorting demand.
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The Vision Fund has spurred an arms race in the venture industrySoftBank's large investments are also distorting the labor market, Malven said.
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He repeatedly points his finger in Pollak's face to drive his argument home and speaks angrily at him for distorting Trump's remarks.
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"We are so distorting the system of justice just to get Donald Trump, it's going to hurt us so much," Giuliani responded.
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" Democrats have accused Republicans of distorting Tlaib's comments, arguing the attacks on the two Muslim women underscores bigotry within the GOP. "Rep.
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Indeed, Clinton has attacked Sanders unfairly in recent days, distorting the hard work he put in for her during the general election.
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" Sanders fired back at the president in another op-ed, saying Trump was "grossly distorting what the Medicare for All legislation does.
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Although the ad seemed aimed at honoring Black History Month, it was instantly criticized for being insensitive and distorting MLK's original message.
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In strong terms that went beyond the network's usually measured tone, CNN condemned Cruz for "knowingly" distorting the facts at the debate.
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Instead, it has been sharpening its knives for precisely the kinds of regulation that, far from distorting markets, help to improve them.
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That secrecy has undermined the Chinese government's vows to limit death sentences, distorting how common executions are in China, the report said.
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Like the Trump administration's distorting of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the VDOT's course of action in the Chesapeake Bay was cruel.
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Many Chinese banks excel at conservative lending that keeps inefficient industrial dinosaurs afloat – a de-facto subsidy that fuelled trade-distorting overcapacity.
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"Bernie Sanders' campaign has unleashed a barrage of negative attacks, lying about and distorting Joe's record," read a fund-raising text message.
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Regulators have seen wide variations in how much capital banks set aside to cover the same risks, distorting competition in the sector.
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And it is not just Trump and his campaign who are busy distorting reality on social media to distract and confuse voters.
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If successful, it would also at least somewhat undermine the integrity of worldwide markets by deleting transaction records and distorting financial truth.
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But the researchers spotted MAMBO-9 without gravitational lensing, making it the most distant galaxy to be seen without this distorting effect.
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Stewart capitalizes on this effect, distorting his electric guitar as the song crescendos, and belting out the vocal line with disarming histrionics.
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"They're very, very sophisticated in using our culture, basically things we have produced and then distorting them for their purposes," he said.
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He was one of the great innovators of musique concrète, the mid-20th-century style of employing and distorting nontraditional musical sounds.
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But part of sorting out the Reigns problem is getting rid of Brock Lesnar, who has distorting effects on the entire roster.
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Look no further than the field of food science to see what a distorting force industry funding of scientific research can be.
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It's the same technology that powers Facebook's (and Snapchat's) face-distorting camera lenses, and helped propel Pokémon Go into a cultural phenomenon.
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In Russia, this meant distorting coverage of the Ukrainian civil war against Russia, as well as influencing debate about local Russian politics.
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Russian interference in democracies like the U.S. and the U.K. is diminishing trust in election results, inflaming political rivalries, and distorting economic policy.
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In one a femalepeers through a wine looking glass while a handful of canvases follow men in suits in distorting and tyrannical situations.
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These mistakes have allowed companies and investors to give into their worst impulses, thus distorting the world economy and putting it in peril.
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" Anti-rescue ads are also running in Louisiana, whose Representative Garret Graves said on Friday: "The campaign has been effective in distorting reality.
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FaceApp, a popular app first introduced in 2017, has gone viral again, with countless users distorting their faces with its artificial intelligence technology.
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The distorting effects of tax changes may be masking the saturation of at least some sections of the domestic market for passenger cars.
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From pussy hats to Pantene shampoo, it feels like companies and advertisers have become obsessed with distorting feminism in order to sell products.
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The detective, who is now retired, has been accused of beating witnesses and suspects, manipulating witness identifications, and distorting evidence to frame people.
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And we've got an inappropriate level of interest rates which is distorting asset markets, blowing bubbles and will eventually end up in inflation.
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We're seeing a similar phenomenon in the investment world: the crushing weight of all this global debt is distorting some fundamental economic principles.
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VR makes this possible by making the invisible visible whilst distorting time and space to transform our perception of the world around us.
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But beyond distorting outcomes and using the justice system as a weapon, litigation finance raises the overall cost of legal action more generally.
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Related: Cyber Plays Take Immersive Theater Online A Sensory-Distorting Theater Experiment Invades Museum Spaces 24 Hour Arty People: Endurance Tests And Creativity
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The newcomers are blamed for distorting prices, making markets impossible to trade, and forcing the closure of some long-established specialist commodity funds.
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He was playing a repetitive, droning three-note motif, using multiponics to play multiple notes at once while adding distorting textures with overtones.
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The efforts of distorting Trump's words, actions, and character began during the election, failed on November 8th, and have nevertheless persisted to today.
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The European Commission also accused Google last year of distorting internet search results to favor its shopping service, harming both rivals and consumers.
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Go deeper: The new gig: America's hidden economy The gig economy is distorting U.S. economic data Who is in the on-demand economy
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They have a rich history of distorting or denying every adverse finding against GMOs and attacking the scientists who dare to report them.
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They've given me a distorting mirror to look back at my own tradition, to see what I can learn, what I can provide.
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"With just over four months left to election day, the chances of an economic forecast error distorting the results are fading," he said.
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Maybe there was too much bass in the kick drum and it was distorting so I'd distort the sample to cover it up.
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Anderson would sing snippets of lyrics before distorting her voice or turning away to fiddle with a guitar and an array of pedals.
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We already live among the distorting effects of Twitter and Instagram, the uncanny and calculated sense of intimacy that social-media platforms provide.
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That none of those teams could keep up, he said, is down largely to one thing: the distorting effect of the Champions League.
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Environmental regulations, by making companies absorb the costs they would otherwise impose on the rest of us, reduce market-distorting subsidies to polluters.
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It's distorting the reality of where the technology stands — which is that, despite the buzz, AI is still riddled with errors and biases.
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The U.S. aviation industry has long expressed frustration that state-owned airlines are posing a threat to U.S. jobs and distorting global competition.
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The government is already the most powerful institution in society, and it often has the greatest interest in distorting or hiding inconvenient truths.
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Mr. Williamson found President Richard M. Nixon a particularly inviting target for caricature, distorting him a few degrees more than editorial cartoonists did.
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In a country whose population is overwhelmingly young — two-thirds are under 30 — the distorting effects of such generational asymmetry cannot be understated.
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It can seem self-centered or willfully distorting, but often it's just a way of being transparent about distortions that are happening anyway.
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The person who spoke to Trump told the AP that the president was not apologetic, but blamed the media for distorting his meaning.
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" The Wallace campaign told PoliticsPA in response to the ad, "Brian Fitzpatrick and his allies are taking one clerical mistake and distorting it.
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And while encouraging exports in manufacturing is a good idea, a border adjustment tax could have a distorting effect on commodities like oil.
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The administration is also keeping score largely by trade deficits, rather than counting success by market-distorting practices eliminated and increased U.S. sales.
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Some economists have criticized these efforts, maintaining that these programs often impede development by creating dependency, distorting market incentives, and entrenching corrupt dictators.
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Lighthizer said the U.S. will work to eliminate "unfair subsidies, market-distorting practices by state-owned enterprises" and will improve intellectual property protections.
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The room was completely mirrored, and I put on light-distorting glasses and waved around sticks with neon glowing bulbs attached to them.
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With many Kenyans fed up of government corruption draining state coffers and distorting business and politics, Kenyatta reiterated a pledge to tackle graft.
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When her political opponents plucked that phrase out of context and spun it as hostile to coal communities, they were distorting her meaning.
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Kuroda also dismissed some analysts' criticism that the BOJ's purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETF) were distorting financial markets or dominating Japan's stock market.
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The next step is to shave down the rest of the bubbles sprinkled across Amber's face, distorting her profile — and this gets very bloody.
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The EU competition authority accused Google in April 2015 of distorting internet search results to favour its shopping service, harming both rivals and consumers.
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It even rips off some of Snapchat's face-distorting lenses to make it feel like a similar experience to one you already know well.
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The EU competition authority charged Google in April 2015 with distorting internet search results to favor its shopping service, harming both rivals and consumers.
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For a few moments, the light from the Falcon Heavy's engines invaded the night air, momentarily distorting the gloomy morning into a false dawn.
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Is it possible to give voice to experts on both sides — standard journalistic practice — without distorting the public's perception of the level of disagreement?
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"They also created fictitious bids and offers, distorting demand and supply in order to achieve their profit motives," the Commission said in a statement.
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Sakurai also shrugged off concerns voiced by some investors that the central bank's huge purchases were distorting Japan's real-estate investment trust (REIT) market.
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He has lodged a judicial complaint against persons whom he alleges to be distorting the course of justice by exercising improper influence over witnesses.
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What is happening in your brain that is causing you to look at these women through a prism that is distorting their actual selves?
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Hiring has been an art more than a science, with signals like degrees and social networks distorting a market already starved of objective data.
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Earlier on Wednesday, 12 global steel associations urged the G7 to prevent cheap Chinese steel distorting world markets and inflicting further pain on producers.
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Essentially, there are three: the protection of intellectual property, the outlawing of forced technology transfers and the cessation of illegal, market-distorting industry subsidies.
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Because medical devices often have narrow, high-pitched frequencies, a basic filter can clip out those noises without distorting other sounds, like human speech.
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The desire to reclaim Britain's sovereignty from Europe, via Brexit, is so distorting that conservatives are willing to sacrifice their country to get there.
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The report said the same picture was posted on the Vietnam Airlines website, with "distorting content" about the situation in the South China Sea.
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They criticized the spiritual group for, among other things, according to Mr. Chu, believing in paranormal activity, eschewing modern medicine and distorting Chinese culture.
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You should do so in the hope of stimulating an economic recovery without at the same time once again seriously distorting financial market prices.
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The manual suggests distorting his or her features, creating a caricature of that person and exaggerating qualities about them to achieve a desired effect.
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Advancements in science also presented anti-abortion activists with the opportunity to further their cause, often by distorting scientific facts to fit their narrative.
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Beijing also turned its focus on automated trading strategies, suspecting some hedge funds of deliberately or accidentally distorting pricing in search of quick profits.
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Under EU law, national legislation affecting digital services needs to be pre-notified to Brussels to ensure it is not distorting the single market.
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"I like to employ the uncanny valley in my work, [and] distorting the human form subconsciously triggers an innate fear of mortality," Johnson says.
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"The primary concern was not to bring in any tech that looked like it might wind up swallowing or distorting the Dow," he said.
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But, in general, he does not particularly like to talk about himself; he is too conscious of the distorting effects of his own storytelling.
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In the first place, its illicit nature will both shock the reader into paying attention and prevent sentimentally-false sympathy from distorting his judgement.
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As Amy Harmon reported for the New York Times, white supremacists have lately been distorting and appropriating genetic science for bizarre, self-aggrandizing ends.
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For the research center, computers programmed for energy conservation did the same, distorting the hexagons, a rational process producing woozy but climate-efficient forms.
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Meanwhile, governments reluctant to cut expensive and market distorting subsidies for car fuel and heating oil, can now do so with less political pain.
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Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have said that Republicans are distorting the roots of the inquiry in an effort to bolster Mr. Trump.
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Nigeria's defence ministry has denied Amnesty's allegations and accused the rights group of distorting facts about its counter-terrorism efforts in the country's northeast.
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More subtly, the signaling functions of news brands and the dense cultural barriers meant to guard against distorting effects of advertising have broken down.
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These and other predatory behaviors are distorting the global markets and harming businesses and workers not just in the U.S. but around the globe.
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Step outside the distorting political lens of the battle for the nomination and listen to Jay Tabb, chief of the FBI national security operation.
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In their first arguments of the impeachment trial, counsel for President Donald Trump accused House Democrats of obscuring facts while distorting the impeachment process.
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Doing so, she shows us what a deeply womanly role Beckett has written, albeit one whose tragedy is refracted through a distorting comic lens.
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President Trump's advisor and former campaign manager has a penchant for the over-the-top political spin, and also straight-up distorting the truth.
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Lighthizer said there would be specific targets for Chinese purchases of specific products, but those would not be made public to avoid distorting markets.
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He spent much of the 2016 campaign doing almost exactly what he has done as President: Exaggerating, distorting and, at times, flat-out lying.
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That's why it's our most relevant dystopia: because the dark mirror it holds up to our face isn't distorting our reflection much at all.
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Facebook is launching another Snapchat clone, a standalone ephemeral picture and video messaging app — complete with face-distorting masks — that looks almost identical to Snapchat.
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Constantly bending, and abstracting, distorting and refracting, connecting and unifying concepts once the essence of an inspiring idea comes ashore like a special, invisible gift.
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The entire show feels like a funhouse hall of mirrors, distorting real life political and technological story-lines and throwing them back in our faces.
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The Commission, which oversees competition policy in the European Union, said the scheme helped the postal service to fulfill an important role without distorting competition.
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"Through his images, video clips and documents, Anh fabricated information distorting and defaming authorities, raising public doubt and worry," VNA quoted the court as saying.
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It's similar to the face-distorting filter ads that Snapchat sells, like when Taco Bell paid so that users could turn their faces into tacos.
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The Sena, based in Rajasthan, has been critical of the film, saying it would offend the Rajput community, and that Bhansali was deliberately distorting history.
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"The measure will allow for the orderly wind-down of the insolvent airline Air Berlin without unduly distorting competition," the Commission said in a statement.
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If they believe that a digital currency is being used for widespread tax evasion, or is distorting the financial system, they will crack down hard.
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The attractive terms add to concerns that China's Belt and Road initiative is distorting the financing markets through soft loans dressed up as commercial agreements.
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Meanwhile, Japan and the EU joined America in forming an alliance to "eliminate…unfair market distorting and protectionist practices", which is aimed squarely at China.
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Earlier this year, Conatel suspended three television channels, including CNN's Spanish-language service, from the airwaves, accusing them of distorting the truth in their coverage.
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A message to those who are distorting my views including all white nationalists and especially one racist freak whose name I will not even mention.
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A CoreCivic statement says activists are distorting the company&aposs role in immigration detention with "wrong and politically motivated" information shared by special interest groups.
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It criticized the government for its approach towards media and for what it said was a tendency to accuse journalists of distorting the president's words.
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But these digital echo chambers actually give Facebook (and global leaders like Trump) massive influence over a wide audience, distorting our perceptions of the world.
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At best, bots provide a useful service such as news alerts or customer service; at worst they're associated with spam, harassment, or distorting public opinion.
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Introduced at 13% for a year from September 2016 then raised to 14%, it replaced a sales tax that economists say was distorting the market.
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Some investors blame SoftBank's $100 billion Vision Fund for distorting valuations in private markets by injecting unprecedented amounts of capital into unprofitable tech start-ups.
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Political uncertainty, the the distorting financial impact of mega-funders like SoftBank, and increased public skepticism about tech's utopian promises have all left a mark.
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In the process, he has made a number of misleading claims about NATO, distorting how it works and why it exists in the first place.
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But, in contrast to the EU, we do not rely on distorting public health science as a means to wrap greed in a green flag.
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It has adjudicated hundreds of cases between member countries, including more than 120 brought by the United States against trade-distorting measures of other nations.
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In a statement, Iglesias' lawyer James Sammataro accused Universal of distorting the contract's meaning so that "it alone" could reap the savings from digital streams.
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Distorting the tax code to favor politically connected special interests means that regular American households and businesses across the country face a heavier tax burden.
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I know I have a short while possible to me, but I don't want to constrict or profane that with recrimination or a distorting bitterness.
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To solve this problem, mathematicians and cartographers have developed a huge library of representations of the globe, each distorting a certain attribute and preserving others.
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The fact that it feels as if perhaps they are should be read as testament to the distorting effects of excellence: rare, genuine, exhilarating excellence.
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After running around the office and showing off the reality-distorting water creatures that I drew to my co-workers, everybody agreed it was neat.
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Immediately after liftoff, the angle-of-attack measurement on his side failed, setting off his stick shaker and distorting his indications of airspeed and altitude.
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Go deeper: The two-faced freelance economy The gig economy is distorting U.S. economic data How many contractors Instacart and other on-demand companies have
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The speaker has been clear that he is unafraid to speak out against Trump when he believes the candidate is distorting conservative or American principles.
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In an editorial published in a state-run newspaper in China last year, he said coverage about Chinese contributions distorting Australian politics was racially biased.
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai on Thursday rejected a request from a dozen senators to investigate Sinclair Broadcast Group for "distorting news" coverage.
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Taxpayers have already paid about $800 million to Brazil in recent years to settle a long-standing trade dispute over U.S. trade-distorting cotton subsidies.
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Without the tax exclusion artificially distorting benefit designs, companies would introduce incentives for workers to visit less expensive providers, practice healthy lifestyles, and control costs.
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But before you blame America's seniors for distorting political discourse, note the study's main finding: Sharing articles from such disreputable sources was actually pretty uncommon.
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BMJ: It has become an obsession, and I think it's had a distorting effect, and one could say that's precisely what's it's supposed to do.
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What LIGO is looking for is evidence that gravitational waves are distorting spacetime enough that one of the arms becomes temporarily longer than the other.
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He engaged in a heated back-and-forth with an African-American Democratic congresswoman, distorting statements she had made at a ceremony they both attended.
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RAD VHS Camera EffectsThis app takes bad filters to another level by distorting your video and making it seem like it was recorded in the '90s.
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O) for "deliberately distorting news" and asked the commission to pause its ongoing review of the company's proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media Co (TRCO.
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The manipulated material seems to be part of an effort to taint my character with false information by distorting a blog that ended a decade ago.
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"Distorting results for political purposes would harm our business and go against our mission of providing helpful content to all of our users," the spokesperson added.
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Some board members said the central bank needs to keep monetary easing from severely distorting economic and financial conditions, and to make the current policy sustainable.
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In response to a request for comment, the American Library Association submitted detailed information highlighting the impact of market-distorting practices in the digital content industry.
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So while we don't yet know the full story here, we do know that Trump is already distorting it to try to help himself out politically.
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While some smartphone cameras produce good photos, a lens attachment can further expand your phone's field of view or extend the optical zoom without distorting images.
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Closing the gap Some suggest that the political divide has fueled an industry of climate change deniers and skeptics, distorting public perception about climate change science.
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Yet though few doubt that PPAs are better than FITs, there is still fierce debate about whether they are also a sort of market-distorting subsidy.
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WTO rules had to be adapted to new global challenges, such as industrial subsidies, forced technology transfer and other market-distorting policies, the EU letter said.
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The Bank of Japan's purchases of the country's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has been distorting the market, offering traders a leg up on picking stock winners.
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As a result many Gulf and other foreign banks reduced their business with Qatari banks, distorting the foreign exchange market, where onshore and offshore rates diverged.
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Patrick Jacobs's studio consisted of a massive space where the tools, molds, and distorting glass lenses were as demanding of the viewer as the artwork itself.
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Other items on the WTO agenda include China and the United States both wanting to discuss "trade distorting measures" by the other, with no details provided.
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The proposed border adjustment presents unnecessary economic risks to the U.S. economy – potentially disrupting trade flows, increasing consumer prices, and distorting the value of international assets.
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While other models have corrected these misconceptions, their changes come at a cost, such as cutting into the oceans or distorting the continents into unnatural shapes.
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In practice, he has patients who always say they're cutting down on smoking, but since he's known them for decades he knows they're distorting the truth.
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Only one of these minidramas — Adrienne Kennedy's "Funnyhouse of a Negro" from 1969 — uses the literal image of the distorting mirror that tells the greater truth.
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The growth of renewable energy, which last year accounted for almost a quarter of Britain's electricity supply, is becoming so abundant it is distorting electricity markets.
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"With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!" he said in a subsequent tweet.
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Liberal special interests and the media have reacted to Price's nomination in a predictable manner, by distorting his stellar record in Congress and impugning his character.
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"The Court errs in ignoring this history and distorting the statutory text ... ultimately sanctioning the very purging that Congress expressly sought to protect against," she added.
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More than three years of massive monetary stimulus has already resulted in the central bank cornering the Japanese government bond (JGB) market and distorting interest rates.
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The results were clear: National champions, predatory trade practices, intellectual property theft, dumping and other economy-distorting government policies were big drivers of structurally unfair trade.
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President Trump blasted the "out of control" dishonesty of the mainstream media during a Thursday press conference, accusing reporters of distorting facts to help special interests.
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Also included are technical provisions to reduce other trade-distorting policies, increase transparency and help ensure non-discriminatory treatment of ag products among the three nations.
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Opened up by Collins so you know it means business, the track meanders along pleasantly, distorting slightly when Tyler's verse comes, before strolling towards its end.
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The rows of fabric that comprise Daydream scatter light that's projected onto them, creating radiating geometric patterns and immersing visitors in alternating, perception distorting blue shapes.
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Unlike the distorting effects of regulation, a tax on emissions would give companies flexibility to come up with their own cost-effective strategies for reducing CO2.
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NBC News President Noah Oppenheim issued a memo to staff ahead of publication of Farrow's book, "Catch and Kill," which accused Farrow of distorting the facts.
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Instead, it's covered as a gaffe, which means the fault, according to media theater critics, lies not with the people distorting Clinton's intentions and her policy.
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But at any moment, the tracks are likely to flaunt their artificiality: adding samples or sound effects, distorting her voice, suddenly deploying a big bass drop.
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The same goes for bright satellites and space junk that clutter Earth's orbit, sometimes distorting a scientist's ability to gain a clear view of the universe.
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An important advantage of helicopter money over, say, yet another round of quantitative easing is that it would support the economy without distorting the credit markets.
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The doping era may have reached its body-distorting peak before the turn of this century, when athletes from many nations imbibed all sorts of steroids.
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TV's Krystal Ball: Biden campaign has 'big' Hillary Clinton energy MORE came to Biden's defense, accusing the Sanders campaign of "distorting" his rival's record on Iraq.
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The newspaper asked if he wasn't exaggerating by comparing right-wing nationalists today to Germany's Nazis or Italy's fascists, saying he was "distorting the historical record".
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"The weight of expectation, hype and marketing is distorting the market," said Hugo Nathan, co-founder of Beaumont Nathan, an art advisory company based in London.
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But what if the feeling of acceleration is an illusion, conjured by our expectations of perpetual progress and exaggerated by the distorting filter of the internet?
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But what if the feeling of acceleration is an illusion, conjured by our expectations of perpetual progress and exaggerated by the distorting filter of the internet?
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Yet Republicans, led by Mr. Trump and buttressed by his allies in the conservative media, have spent months seizing on and distorting their more inflammatory statements.
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Yet Republicans, led by Mr. Trump and buttressed by his allies in the conservative media, have spent months seizing on and distorting their more inflammatory statements.
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Now, that said — and a little hypocritically — it is hard to ignore the stadiums full of women and men who are distorting their faces with injections.
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Gradually, an air of surrealism sets in, the distorting hyper-awareness bred of too much talk and too little sleep, and the stories become more fantastical.
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"The schemes encourage ship registration in Europe and contribute to the global competitiveness of the sector without unduly distorting competition," the Commission said in a statement.
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THIS IS MISLEADING Mr. Spicer is distorting Ms. Farkas's potential knowledge of the situation, what she actually said and the context in which she said it.
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Among the emails was a document that set "thematic guidelines" which rebel-allied media outlets had to follow — if necessary by distorting facts and faking news.
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In a separate tweet, Trump took a shot at the "fake news" media, saying mainstream media is distorting "what I say about hate, bigotry, etc. Shame!"
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The system, as it stands, rewards political extremism, exacerbates the influence of money in elections, amplifies the distorting effects of polls, and contributes to political polarization.
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Nor do they seem moved by the earnest arguments of libertarians that unregulated pollution amounts to a market-distorting subsidy, a violation of free market principles.
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At times Mr Xi sounds pro-market, yet he refers to debt-laden and market-distorting state-owned enterprises as his party's "most dependable source of support".
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The fundamental reason the "free market" ideal is unhelpful in energy is that it's impossible to ever truly settle what is and isn't a market-distorting subsidy.
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But Macri's government has prioritized reviving the energy sector to shake Argentina's dependence on imported oil and gas, and to put an end to market-distorting subsidies.
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But there is a deeper concern: that fashions and fads are distorting economics, by nudging the profession towards asking particular questions, and hiding bigger ones from view.
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Tom looks better in the iPhone photo, because you physically have to get much closer with the Huawei's wide-angle lens, which ends up distorting your subject.
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We just don't notice them distorting the space around us because by the time they arrive here, their vibrations are on a scale smaller than an atom.
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In an interview with BBC Radio 4, BMA chairman Mark Porter accused the government of distorting research and statistics to buttress its non-existing case on this.
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The European Union rejects that approach, instead relying on global forums such as the World Trade Organization to cut excess steel capacity and avoid market-distorting subsidies.
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Then layer on top of that complicated regulatory systems, legacy policies and infrastructure, and the distorting influence of status quo interests, and you've got quite a mess.
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Earlier this year, Venezuelan telecoms regulator Conatel suspended three television channels, including CNN's Spanish-language service, from Venezuela's airwaves, accusing it of distorting the truth in coverage.
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"Without proper oversight and enforcement action, zero-rating can discriminate against certain services, potentially distorting competition, stifling innovation, and hampering user choice and free speech," they wrote.
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But that role is also, by design, systemic and thus pervasive, making it less egregious-seeming but perhaps more distorting than the incidents described by the Times.
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Americans are being subjected to a reality-distorting spin machine of hurricane intensity, but this time they know a fake news storm when they see it coming.
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As a result many Gulf and other foreign banks reduced their business with Qatari banks, distorting the foreign exchange market, where onshore and offshore rates have diverged.
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Unfortunately, not everyone is happy with the increasing diversity of the chunta: Some accuse gay and trans dancers of "distorting" the tradition, previously upheld by straight men.
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The corporate value tax would effectively place the same aggregate burden as the current profits tax, but do so in fairer, less distorting, and more transparent way.
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"But even with less money going into campaigns, economic power is still a strong presence distorting the elections," said Nicolao Dino, Brazil's top prosecutor for electoral crimes.
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Importing foreign medicines would involve importing market distorting foreign price controls that would only make exacerbate the problem of other nations free-riding off of U.S. innovation.
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"Given the president's propensity to lie about almost everything, it is not surprising that Trump is grossly distorting what the Medicare for All legislation does," Sanders wrote.
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"I have never had lower self-esteem than I have right now," he shares with his very first televised live audience before completely distorting an *NSYNC song.
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These reforms should focus on prioritizing taxpayer over special interests, reducing out-of-control spending, and eliminating market-distorting policies that end up hurting farmers and consumers.
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At a press conference following Monday's mayhem, Carrie Lam, the city's leader, responded to allegations of widespread police brutality by accusing the press of distorting "isolated incidents".
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That's what this country was built off of," she said during an interview for a new CNN short documentary, "Distorting the truth: Russian hacking beyond the election.
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"We write to urge deeper cooperation on our shared enforcement objectives, including the unique challenges posed by continued market distorting behavior in China," Levin and Wyden wrote.
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Kuroda said the BOJ may review in the future the pace at which it buys ETFs, criticised by some analysts as distorting an already booming stock market.
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Testimony to the committee by American manufacturers and labor unions said the domestic aluminum industry had been brought to its knees by market-distorting policies in China.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro's government ordered the suspension of CNN's Spanish-language service from Venezuela's airwaves on Wednesday, accusing it of distorting the truth in coverage.
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It's a simultaneously diabolical and simple strategy: greatly exaggerate and feign outrage over your so-called foe's behavior while removing, distorting, or ignoring the context surrounding it.
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Kuroda said the BOJ may review in the future the pace at which it buys ETFs, criticized by some analysts as distorting an already booming stock market.
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"As Podesta said, she's got bad instincts," Mr. Trump said, distorting a comment in one of the thousands of Mr. Podesta's hacked emails recently released by WikiLeaks.
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In some scenes, anger seems to hover over characters, as threatening as the movie's permanently dark skies; at other times, it erupts, flushing faces and distorting voices.
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Another reason some people may demonstrate high levels of bias in reading the news is that they habitually consume highly biased news, distorting their frame of reference.
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At the time, that seemed a price worth paying, even though it came at the risk of distorting financial market prices and creating a global market bubble.
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The internet creates a distorting filter where it is more difficult for people to understand one another on an emotional level because they cannot see each other.
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The spectacular growth in online shopping, it turns out, is not only tamping down inflation more than previously thought, but also distorting the way it is measured.
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Scientists have created a computer algorithm that can take an underwater photograph and automatically readjust its colors to compensate for the distorting effect of water on light.
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Multiple outlets ran headlines that said 30-year-old Kjellberg was quitting YouTube, distorting the nature of his announcement and his audience&aposs reaction in the process.
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"It's not because we don't care about higher wages, it's because if you increase wages in one sector abruptly, it has a very distorting effect," Marquez said.
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"The use of this subpoena authority seems to be another example of the Trump administration distorting or manipulating the immigration laws to serve political ends," he said.
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"The scheme will help Greece to reduce CO2 emissions, in line with EU energy and climate goals, without unduly distorting competition," the Commission said in a statement.
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Such bond funds require that investors hold the assets until maturity, potentially locking in liquidity and distorting prices, said a fund manager who declined to be identified.
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The reasons behind this resurgent production give cause for doubting that China is going to heed calls to discourage what the United States terms "market-distorting policies".
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Its angled mirrors refract the sepia tones and vibrant greens of the land as well as an endless expanse of sky, distorting and abstracting everything in view.
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"There are people who argue, 'Oh, my God, these debates are coarsening the discourse,' and 'Oh, my God, these debates are distorting the process,' " Lehrer told me.
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And while accusing the media of distorting his views following the shooting, he has questioned from the Senate floor if tougher gun laws could have prevented it.
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"The crisis is caused by the fundamental incompatibility of China's trade-distorting, non-market economic regime with an open, transparent and predictable international trading system," Shea said.
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Democrats gripe that Pompeo acted like a Trump crony by, for example, distorting intelligence about Russia's effect on the 2016 presidential election in ways that favored Trump.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European Union proposals for keeping Britain in the EU risk distorting competition in banking unless they are applied carefully, the bloc's banking watchdog said on Friday.
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At the core of Schultz's diagnosis is the idea that America's two-party duopoly is distorting politics and leaving Americans unrepresented, good ideas unnoticed, and policy problems entrenched.
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This is for teen girls, if you don't know this, the beautification filters in Snapchat, they plump your eyes, your cheeks, your lips, so we're distorting people's identity.
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China, which joined the WTO in 2001, brought to the party a model of trade-distorting state-infused capitalism beyond anything the existing rules had been shaped for.
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"Conditions distorting competition allow foreign competitors to carve out an increasingly large part of passenger volume," Michael Frenzel, President of the federal association of Germany's tourism sector, said.
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Regulation — by distorting the investment choices that lead to innovation, has created a considerable drag on the economy amounting to a reduction in GDP growth in recent years.
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A constitutional system built to calm the tensions of America's founding era is distorting the political competition between parties, making the country both less democratic and less Democratic.
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This does work in practice — Eggos fold down to the size of an apple, and you can throw them around in a bag without permanently distorting the headband.
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Facebook might be distorting our sense of reality and creating an uninformed, hyper-partisan citizenry with its automated feeds and trending topics, but it's also making record profits.
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They are actually cheating their constituents out of the benefits of free markets, distorting choices and interfering in decisions with unstable, arbitrary policymaking customized for the privileged elite.
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This is in part because those smaller nations cannot afford fleets large enough to protect their carriers; trying to do so is already distorting their order of battle.
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Their rotation causes their wavelength to appear squished as one side of the star faces Earth, distorting the light they emit and making them appear blue or red.
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Your digital assistant chirps away non-stop, systematically distorting the information it gives you in order to direct you towards products that advertisers have paid it to promote.
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Near a series of lithographs about the Black Panthers, Pike brought up Radio Fresh, a Syrian station that defies a ban on female journalists by distorting their voices.
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It is completely distorting my sexuality to the point where it could actually be harmful or at least not enjoyable for other people who I am involved with.
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Independent fact checkers and social media experts say that has not been enough to stop a flood of falsehoods and conspiracy theories distorting political debate without public oversight.
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Some Republican veterans criticize the fee structure of the political consulting industry, which traditionally has paid commissions based on the volume of advertising purchased, as distorting campaign decisions.
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China hit back at the U.S. after it branded the East Asian giant a competitor, accusing it of distorting the country's intentions and adopting a "Cold War" mentality.
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By giving renewable energy (or nuclear power) credit for a lack of greenhouse gases, state policy is not distorting their prices, it is making their prices more accurate.
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For example, in combat officers are often required to insulate their deep affection for their troops so as to prevent their feelings from unduly distorting their professional judgment.
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Reshaping the work force, and distorting patterns of saving and investment, the aging of the American population is carving an unexpectedly broad path of destruction across the economy.
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Yet there's something very strange about the centrality of paid ads in our ongoing debate about how to grapple with viral lies and their distorting effect on democracy.
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Combined, the three central banks hold some $15 trillion in assets, purchases that were meant to encourage riskier investing but that critics say may be distorting financial conditions.
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In January the Commission approved a restructuring plan for Areva including 4.5 billion euros of state aid, saying it would make the company viable without unduly distorting competition.
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In this year's presidential campaign, the distorting effects of providing such power to two virtually all-white states in an increasingly diversifying party have grown impossible to ignore.
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They were more concerned with bending, distorting and folding the bill to meet the Byrd rule, an arbitrary congressional peculiarity of no real purpose to the outside world.
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"This constant attempt to drive it higher and make it bigger, because it's not 2 percent is just wrong," he added, noting that quantitative easing was distorting markets.
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It's like going home, one in which the media can't keep distorting who you are or ignore you or decide your brand of excellence isn't quite good enough.
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Moore, during a visit to the Senate on Tuesday, said he did not support a religious test for public officials and accused the media of distorting his views.
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The Nets play a swarming defense with a collective bounce, and their wait-who-is-that-guy no-names are long on desire and short on distorting egos.
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An Australian diplomat said the U.S. subsidies were equivalent to two-thirds of Australia's entire agricultural output and the policy risked distorting the world market, the official said.
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Facebook will add graphics around the reader's face, and even face-distorting masks to make the story more compelling to kids on the other end of the call.
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"If people are distorting my record — as is the case right now — we are going to deal with it," he said in answer to a question from the audience.
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So if only a tiny bit of money flows out of one of the major asset classes into the venture capital market, it can have a huge distorting effect.
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"Should the practice become more widespread or show signs of restricting entry and expansion or distorting competition more widely in DCM, we will consider conducting further work," it said.
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None the people responsible for distorting the intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were punished (although people who tried to blow the whistle about said distortion certainly were).
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Over time, historians and film critics mistakenly attributed many of her accomplishments to her husband Herbert Blaché and other male filmmakers, effectively distorting her legacy in the historical record.
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Thanks to the distorting effect of Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system, Labour's 433% vote share on May 7th 2020 gave it 155 seats of the 600 available.
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Since 2015 the largest U.S carriers - Delta Air Lines , American Airlines Group and United Airlines - have argued their Gulf rivals are being unfairly subsidized by their governments, distorting competition.
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" Stolz's artwork, Shrouded, is a series of hanging veils that cover the space, distorting the light and, as she writes, "transforming the caverns into flat pictures of what was.
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Cohen, a vocal Trump critic who represents Memphis, said in a statement that the Electoral College has a "distorting effect," since it allows the less popular candidate to triumph.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kept interrupting her, saying she thought the Trump administration was manufacturing the crisis and distorting statistics, according to four sources who were in the room.
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But while Magritte's illusions were often imagined, sometimes almost hallucinogenic, Ms Celmins draws from the illusory power of photographs, which depict the real world while framing and distorting it.
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Israel's economy grew an annualised 1.2 percent in the first quarter, its slowest pace in almost two years with changes to the way cars are taxed distorting the numbers.
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"The WTO appellate report undermines WTO rules, making them less effective to counteract Chinese SOE subsidies that are harming U.S. workers and businesses and distorting markets worldwide," it added.
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The divergence shows how years of political squabbling over global warming - including disputes over its existence - have grown deep roots, distorting the way Americans view the world around them.
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"A new team offers new opportunities, but the challenges are significant - well-oiled vested interests have an excellent track record of delaying, diluting and distorting real change," he said.
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The paper said "hostile forces in and outside China, especially separatists, religious extremists and terrorists, have tried to split China and break it apart by distorting history and facts".
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But it was a useful way to explain my own hermetic and asocial college years, though in hindsight I was probably distorting Hesse's intent to suit my own lifestyle.
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The ECB is coming under increasing criticism that its massive assets buys, intended to kick-start inflation, are inflating asset prices, distorting financial markets, and leading to financial instability.
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"The WTO appellate report undermines WTO rules, making them less effective to counteract Chinese SOE subsidies that are harming U.S. workers and businesses and distorting markets worldwide," it added.
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The other projector is defined as a "multi-axis moving projector" and allows you to move the screen onto any wall without distorting the content or sound being displayed.
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" In 2015 the company launched its DNI news initiative after accusations, in the words of one Guardian report, "distorting internet search results and acting anti-competitively by European regulators.
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"Despite the national security importance of our nation's aluminum sector, the industry continues to be decimated by China's market distorting policies that contribute to vast overcapacity," the senators wrote.
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Since 2015 the largest U.S carriers - Delta Air Lines, American Airlines Group and United Airlines - have argued their Gulf rivals are being unfairly subsidized by their governments, distorting competition.
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They are either ignorant of or willfully distorting the history and the core of the conflict and negotiations between the United States and North Korea surrounding the nuclear issue.
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Illegally-subsidized foreign aluminum is distorting global pricing and flooding American marketplaces, driving down domestic prices, depleting production, and forcing manufacturing facilities across the nation to close their doors.
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"He is distorting the truth when he says MS-13 is coming over here when in fact, people are coming here to run away from MS-13," Kerry said.
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In addition, Treasury yields are being weighed down by the almost USD 16 trillion in sovereign bonds globally with a negative yield, distorting their signal about US economic activity.
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" The airline partnership countered Wednesday that the subsidies to their Middle Eastern competitors "are severely distorting the global aviation market and hurting the ability of U.S. carriers to compete.
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The SALT deduction is both a distorting facet of the tax code and a total disincentive to state and local governments to keep their own fiscal houses in order.
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On the other side is President Donald Trump, who is distorting the findings of Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation into the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe.
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Mueller declined to criticize Attorney General William Barr's summaries of his report, which were widely denounced at the time for distorting Mueller's findings and understanding the evidence of obstruction.
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Automakers have already complained that China's regions are distorting the market by giving preferential treatment to local champions, and Beijing has promised to take action against "blind" sector growth.
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New subscribers are likely distorting the pictureAnother factor that's most likely helping Peloton minimize its churn rate is just the sheer number of new subscribers it has been adding.
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"[Fawkes] allows individuals to inoculate themselves against unauthorized facial recognition models at any time without significant[ly] distorting their own photos, or wearing conspicuous patches," according to the paper.
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In its 2018 trade policy agenda released Wednesday, the Trump administration criticized China for undermining market competition and distorting markets, behavior it said had left the world poorer overall.
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After washing the samples in ultrapure water, the researchers dried them on a vibrating platform, to make sure the fibers did not stick to each other, distorting their curves.
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For now, Democratic voters might think twice about embracing a candidate whose dark, distorting ideas about America bear such an uncomfortable resemblance to those of the president they detest.
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You could turn on a financial network at nearly any hour of the trading day and hear complaints about how quantitative easing and zero interest rates were distorting markets.
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Suffice to say, Perry was asking FERC to intervene in energy markets in the crudest possible way, distorting their results based on justifications that were not even facially plausible.
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When it announced its quantitative easing program, the bank promised not to buy more than 33 percent of any one bond issue, to avoid distorting the market too much.
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" Last July, he attacked the entire news media, saying, "With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!
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The "phase two" negotiations should be seen as an opportunity to get at that and other issues, including trade distorting subsidies, disciplines around state enterprises, and digital trade policy.
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It opens the door to extraordinary violence, such as Zero-Two raids or the Mother of All Bombs, distorting our normal standards of restraint and tolerance for collateral damage.
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As for who is being honest, Mr. Sanders's supporters overwhelmingly argued that Ms. Warren was distorting his remarks while those more inclined to Ms. Warren said they believed her.
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Dr. Foley, who now oversees Title X--the nation's only federally funded family planning program--has a track record of ignoring and distorting facts in the name of religion.
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And rather than distorting the market, state clean energy programs help to level the playing field by accounting for the pollution, greenhouse gas and otherwise, from fossil fuel generators.
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But their critics say they poison the debate by playing to people's worst instincts and prejudices, distorting facts and creating a propaganda ramp that mainstreams intolerance and shapes policy.
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While some fans bristle at the idea of the septet distorting their distinctive, talented voices, others believe this could be yet another tool to further convey the song's message.
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" Forty minutes later, he discharged a characteristic follow-up: "With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country.
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In order to prevent families like the Kochs, Mercers, and Adelsons from distorting our politics, we need to redistribute a significant chunk (though not nearly all) of their fortunes.
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As currently structured, the National Flood Insurance Program is unsustainable, drowning in debt and distorting housing and development patterns in ways that encourage risky behavior and undermine environmental priorities.
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Rather than distorting or taking his record out of context, the senators should ask Pompeo whether he still stands by the positions he has publicly taken on these issues.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. pipeline operators are selling their underused space at steep discounts to keep crude flowing - angering shippers and distorting an already opaque market for oil trading.
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Mr. Trump was most likely referring to — and distorting — comments President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made in an interview with Time magazine and other publications published early Monday morning.
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Some observers complain that incentives to publish have a distorting effect, causing scientists to oversell data; a cutthroat culture sometimes leads researchers to publish intentionally incomplete or vague protocols.
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The central bank took steps in July to allow bond yields to move more flexibly around its target, reflecting concerns among policymakers that its heavy buying is distorting markets.
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And for a long time, political scientists and psychologists have wondered: Do these fact checks matter in the minds of viewers, particularly those whose candidate is distorting the truth?
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"This update shows that China has not fundamentally altered its unfair, unreasonable, and market-distorting practices that were the subject of the March 2018 report on our Section 301 investigation."
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However, many market watchers fear the BOJ's massive money printing project, which is about to enter its fifth year, is increasingly untenable, distorting financial markets and hurting the country's banks.
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The Snapbots will also use the same technology the app uses for its face-distorting lenses, so that people can try on different-colored Spectacles before making a final purchase.
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Frank Ockenfels 3 In 1990, American TV viewers were introduced to the bucolic town of Twin Peaks, Washington—and to creator David Lynch's creepy-campy propensity for distorting the mundane.
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The mysteries flicker through the love scenes, and vice versa, each briefly distorting and briefly replacing the other, like a burning convenience store gradually turning into a stand of trees.
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There are loads of cheap, underperforming tablets available, but Amazon's aggressive pricing, tie-in services, and outsized brand power have a reality distorting effect on buyers and otherwise critical reviewers.
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Though his blunt-force use of tariffs has angered many, Trump's push to change what are widely viewed as China's market-distorting trade and subsidy practices has drawn broad support.
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Separately, Daimler must recall 294.5,21 Mercedes diesel cars in Germany after regulators found that they were fitted with software aimed at distorting emissions tests, the Transportation Ministry said on Saturday.
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But prolonging the purchases again would be challenging when the ECB has already bought so much, because it risks further distorting market prices and even running out of eligible bonds.
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There was no question that the steel sector was plagued by trade distortions, the study said, but G20 governments had grossly under-reported their own use of trade-distorting policies.
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Mutants which lack the DNA sequence that the drive targets, and which can thus escape its distorting effects, will be hugely favoured in the population that the drive is attacking.
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In a report titled, "BOJ nationalizing the stock market," Nicholas Smith, an analyst at CLSA, said that the central bank's exchange-traded fund (ETF) buying program was distorting the market.
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The proposal would allow Britain to have different bank capital rules, a fact that caused the European Banking Authority watchdog to warn on Friday that the deal risked distorting competition.
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And, by becoming the largest shareholder in several companies, the bank is distorting the pricing function of the market, adds Nicholas Benes, of the Board Director Training Institute of Japan.
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"Trump should have long ago been named by our government 'persona non grata' for exalting hatred and division in the country, and distorting this reality without any compassion," he wrote.
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Now that the BOJ announced it, it means it understood the market's concern that its effort to buy Nikkei-linked ETFs was distorting valuations and liquidity in some individual stocks.
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However, many are sceptical about how swiftly the market has bounced back over recent weeks, and believe that the ECB's presence in the corporate market is distorting the bigger picture.
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Through her investigation into how money flows from companies and trade groups to labs, she shows how pervasive the problem is — and why it's distorting how we think about health.
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"Once again this right-wing organization that has been going after the Clintons since the 1990s is distorting facts to make utterly false attacks," Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin said.
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Parliament is now looking at whether to amend China's Criminal Law to include criminal penalties for disrespect of the national anthem, including intentionally distorting the lyrics or tune, Xinhua said.
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The Regional Airline Association has accused the president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l, of distorting the facts about what they know all too well — experience and training matters.
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From Beijing to Tbilisi and beyond, blockchain-based processing is searching for low-cost electricity wherever it can be found, whether due to abundant renewable resources or price-distorting subsidies.
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For his part, President Trump has tweeted that "the Fake News" and "politically motivated ingrates" were distorting the picture of what he maintained was an effective response to the storm.
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Going back more than 50 years, the industry has been distorting scientific research by dictating what questions get asked about sugar, particularly questions around sugar's role in promoting heart disease.
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One of the wedding guests, Nodira Sidikova, rued Saipov's actions for distorting the image of her homeland and her faith, which she thought made things harder for her two children.
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There's a danger, though, that the reality-distorting effects of being a billionaire will warp his judgment, convincing him that his business acumen is transferable to the realm of politics.
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The six episodes of this adaptation's first season artfully capture the story in warm, soft tones that lend a dreamlike quality, distorting the line between the real and the imagined.
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With their latest, "Double Negative," they've gone full-on impressionistic, smearing and distorting sounds to create beautiful songs from distant moments playing on a radio that's fallen down a wormhole.
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The growing use of stock buybacks since the mid-1980s has warped the economy, worsening inequality, distorting corporate decision making and diverting resources from investment in employees and hard assets.
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His 180-Australian-dollar (about $135 in United States currency) tasting menu is exhilarating in part because he finds so many inventive ways to celebrate Caribbean dishes without distorting them.
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Consequently, the manifestation of the distorting effect of advertising — addiction, manipulation, fraud, tearing of a collective social fabric — has been met with little cultural immunity, policy response or institutional defenses.
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Mr. Xi has accused Japan of distorting history, and the Chinese state news media has criticized Tokyo's efforts to revise textbooks, saying it has played down atrocities by Japanese soldiers.
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The scheme, known as Hercules, aims to bring down the stock of bad, or non-performing loans which are weighing on Greek banks, without distorting the market through government subsidies.
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Considering that in the first quarter of 2017 Alphabet had net income of $5.4 billion, adding in the Uber gain of around $4.5 billion could have quite the distorting effect.
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Then Schumer stepped in, noting that The Washington Post had granted Trump "a whole lot of Pinocchios" for distorting facts about how much of the wall had already been built.
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Senators are seeking a bill that can balance widespread support for Ex-Im's mission with concerns from conservative skeptical of the bank as subsidizing companies and distorting the free market.
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"Unfortunately, we regret to see the U.S. using religious freedom as a cover to wantonly criticize other sovereign countries by disrespecting and distorting facts," the spokesperson said in a statement.
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The 'one-head, one-vote' rule, together with ownership restrictions and limits on proxy voting, were blamed for distorting governance at these lenders, by allowing minority shareholders to block change.
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They've even started an organization with the sole purpose of distorting people's perceptions of this and making it seem like everyone supports legalization, whether it is really true or not.
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Since flies are attracted to light sources, they could walk through a blood stain, and then leave footprints or regurgitation on lamps or windows, distorting perceptions about whatever took place.
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U.S. President Donald Trump in his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos warned trading partners that Washington would no longer tolerate unfair trade, saying predatory practices were distorting markets.
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" On Twitter, Nasser al-Omar implored his more than two million followers to avoid "distorting the image of the human face and the creation of God just to make people laugh.
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There are "millions of people registered to vote that shouldn't be registered to vote," he said, distorting a Pew Research Center report that was about voter registration systems rather than fraud.
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Instead of distorting the recent remarks of President Rouhani, the U.S. Ambassador should heed the lessons of history and counsel some of the U.S. administration officials to avoid repeating past mistakes.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's popular messaging service WhatsApp has become a political battleground in Brazil's most polarized election in decades, raising concerns that it is distorting debate beyond the public eye.
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"I think that we have to do a better job … to counteract voices that are distorting the reality of trade agreements," U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker told CNBC earlier this year.
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This distorting influence affected not only the participants' perception of the degree of consensus, but also their judgments of whether there was sufficient consensus to use it to guide public policy.
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"Today's decision allows U.S. producers of biodiesel to receive relief from the market-distorting effects of foreign producers dumping into the domestic market," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement.
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BANK RULE DISTORTING PERFORMANCE IS REPEALED | An "Alice in Wonderland" accounting rule that allowed banks to book huge gains because they were stressed has been overturned, Peter Eavis reports in DealBook.
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The real issue is that if Sinclair is systematically distorting the news that appears on its stations, that should be investigated as a potential violation of its FCC-issued broadcast license.
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The U.S., the world's biggest steel importer, remains intent on pressuring China, both directly and through global forums such as the G20, to cut more capacity and avoid market-distorting subsidies.
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" At Gap, which is more troubled, Konik said there's still value in the brand's outlet stores and e-commerce business, "so distorting business here makes a lot of sense to us.
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The U.S. government also needs to ensure U.S. firms are able to compete on a level playing field by decisively challenging China's market-distorting practices through a whole-of-government approach.
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There's something truly out of place amid a slew of uneventful news releases on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) website: Six bizarre sentences, accusing the Obama Administration of distorting climate science.
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"Following the closure (of illegal plants), official steel mills have had to ramp up production to fill the supply void, distorting the official production statistics," said analysts at Liberum in London.
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They were ringers for the real-life models who stalked the Hood by Air men's runway in January, right down to their elaborate tattoos and the uncanny grillwork distorting their grins.
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"We are trying to address them, not for the sake of distorting the image of Iraqi society, rather to remind audiences that we must look inwards and educate ourselves," he said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Massive government investment in China's semiconductor industry risks distorting the global market for integrated circuits, leading to damaging overcapacity and stifling innovation, U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has warned.
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"China's effort to move up the value chain should be the result of healthy competition and free and fair trade, not state-directed investments aimed at distorting global markets," Pritzker said.
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Ex-Im critics say the bank exemplifies crony capitalism by distorting markets and supporting giant corporations such as Boeing, which depends heavily on the bank to support sales to Chinese firms.
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"I am disappointed, I have to say, in Joe, who is a friend of mine, really distorting what Medicare for All is about," Sanders told The New York Times on Wednesday.
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Despite his assurances to lawmakers and the public that he would treat Mueller's investigation fairly and without bias, Barr was widely criticized for distorting the special counsel's findings in the probe.
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"Your order comes as your administration is in the midst of discussions with China to address China's market-distorting policies and other tactics to undermine key American industries," the letter said.
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Still, some investors contend that these negative yields are distorting markets and are doing little, if anything, for the economy.. But there are now signs of life in Europe's credit sector.
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Its latest economic outlook, which slightly lowered world-growth forecasts for this year and next, also said that exceptionally low and negative interest rates "are distorting financial markets and raising risks".
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The surest way to allow American manufacturing companies and jobs to thrive is to end the trade war for good and remove the tariffs causing increased costs and market-distorting effects.
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The ECB's negative deposit rate - effectively a charge on banks for hoarding cash - has been criticized by banks and investors, particularly in Germany, for squeezing their profits and distorting financial markets.
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But one of the most interesting ways it's had a reintroduction to modern music is through other artists distorting and massively changing up what we would normally hear in nu-metal.
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In a recent paper, he and a co-author argued for an array of policies that would get financial help to patients while avoiding some of the coupons' more distorting effects.
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The production's design team — which also includes Toni-Leslie James (costumes), Xavier Pierce (lighting) and Dan Moses Schreier (sound) — has a bright, almost clinical clarity, which occasionally shades into distorting static.
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By exploiting the language of human rights and distorting history, the movement aims to make the case that the Jewish state doesn't have a right to exist in the Middle East.
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A federal judge excoriated Attorney General Bill Barr on Thursday for distorting the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller during his investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Distorting candidates' backgrounds: Newer candidates, still relatively unknown to the public, are having their pasts picked apart and misrepresented — a new spin on the racist "birther" attacks on President Obama's background.
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The Saudi state news service retorted with its own report, citing unnamed officials, that accused Qatar of distorting the facts and declared that dialogue between the two countries had been suspended.
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Suzuki also raised the possibility of the BOJ slowing its buying of risky assets such as exchange-traded funds (ETF), which has drawn criticism from some analysts for distorting stock prices.
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Further distorting your perspective is the fact that your once-ambitious, creative friends seem to have "given up," as you put it — reordered their priorities around a different kind of fulfillment.
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But in research for an upcoming paper, she said, she and a co-researcher found some evidence that lawyer ads may be distorting patients' perceptions of the drugs they've been prescribed.
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And in countries like Nigeria or Angola with lots of natural resources wealth that can be used to fund a basic income without distorting the economy, the promise is especially great.
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Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the committee's chairman, stepped back from leading the investigation earlier this year amid allegations that he was distorting intelligence information to shield the White House from scrutiny.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler must recall 60,000 Mercedes diesel cars in Germany after regulators found that they were fitted with software aimed at distorting emissions tests, the Transportation Ministry said on Saturday.
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Under World Trade Organization rules, VATs are allowed to be border-adjusted but income taxes are not — this is supposed to prevent using the tax code to covertly funnel trade-distorting subsidies.
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They have become adept at distorting the regulatory process and abusing the court system to act in their political interests at the expense of taxpayers, business, and most importantly our members' jobs.
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By offering baseless theories with a kernel of truth and then distorting and sensationalizing them in bad faith, Jones is able to spread misinformation and then retreat from it with little penalty.
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"The measure will contribute to the EU environmental objectives without unduly distorting competition," the Commission, which is in charge of keeping a level playing field for EU companies, said in a statement.
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Even so, combing through the joint communiqué, signs of genuine co-operation were to be found, including a commitment to agree on new rules regarding "market-distorting subsidies" and state-owned enterprises.
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However, electoral politics — in particular, Democrats' desire to win the next round of elections — is distorting conversations about the significance of the protests that have unfolded since the election of Donald Trump.
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Groups critical of the project have accused its director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, of distorting history by portraying a Muslim ruler as the "lover" of Queen Padmavati of the Hindu Rajput warrior clan.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Western aluminum groups called on G2601600 leaders meeting next month in France to curb state subsidies that they regard as distorting global trade and fuelling overcapacity, they said on Thursday.
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To explain Musk's success, others have pointed to his heroic work ethic (he regularly works 85-hour weeks), his ability to set reality-distorting visions for the future and his incredible resilience.
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Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a Democrat, threw his support behind the move, accusing the Chinese government of devastating the U.S. aluminum industry by offering "market-distorting" subsidies to support its producers.
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I don't think this is due to any odd intent on behalf of the show's producers but, rather, to the distorting imperatives of mass entertainment—tell the story, but keep it light.
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Nasdaq and NYSE have said allowing Cboe to piggyback off their closing auction prices would siphon orders away from the listing markets, distorting prices and making it harder to get trades done.
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In a statement, Elliott said the response from BHP to its proposed plan "misses the main point", and that the miner wanted to maintain a "legacy, value-distorting dual-listed company structure".
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But Steele argued that it would be dishonest and distorting to cherry-pick details, and that the possibility of a potential American President being subject to blackmail was too important to hide.
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While this did produce an economic recovery, it did so at the long-run cost of seriously distorting financial market asset prices, thereby setting up the stage for the next economic bust.
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"New rules are needed to improve the protection of intellectual property rights, to eliminate trade-distorting subsidies and other forms of government support, including debt provided by state-owned enterprises," he added.
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Given that context, for me, that's where we've got to begin these questions: by sketching out the forces — political, economic, and social — which are distorting our ability to have a reasonable conversation.
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This may be smart campaigning, but it's terrible for the rest of the country, which is rendered effectively invisible, distorting our politics, our policy debates and even the distribution of federal funds.
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Ron Johnson, for now a conservative dissenter from Mitch McConnell's health care bill, writes in a recent New York Times op-ed that he recognizes the distorting influence of that tax subsidy.
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But as these deals have grown increasingly popular — and led to some concerns about distorting the weekly charts — they have frequently been the critical factor that pushes one album to the top.
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Her supporters also raised concerns about the timing of the president's own tweet sharing the spliced Fox Business video, which came as the video distorting her speech was making the rounds online.
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He criticized the news media for distorting the bill, which he called "landmark legislation" that balances the needs of patients for pain medicine with the Drug Enforcement Administration's powers to stop abuse.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States, the European Union and Japan proposed new global trade rules on Tuesday to curb subsidies they say are distorting the worldwide economy, with China their clear target.
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Generally the story he tells makes today's partisan polarization seem somewhat inevitable, and its relative absence before the 1970s simply an artifact of the distorting effects of Southern segregation on American politics.
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The designer Emilio Sosa's costumes include gowns that mushroom from the waist via hoops and flounces (more Victorian, I think, than early 19th century, but I'm no fashion historian), creating distorting curves.
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The WTO dispute settlement system has adjudicated more than 85033 cases brought by the United States against other countries' trade-distorting measures, finding in our favor about 90 percent of the time.
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Top American trade officials argue they're justified in their efforts to block the appointment of WTO judges and cripple the trade organization until it evolves to start addressing China's market-distorting capitalism.
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China's economic and diplomatic activities around the world are broadly welcomed and no country or report will succeed in distorting the facts or deploying malicious slander, she told a daily news briefing.
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Medvedev said Zurabishvili either didn't know what she was talking about or was wilfully distorting the situation, while the Kremlin blamed radical Georgian politicians for what it called "an anti-Russian provocation".
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WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Massive government investment in China's semiconductor industry risks distorting the global market for integrated circuits, leading to damaging overcapacity and stifling innovation, U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has warned.
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But RBI Governor Urjit Patel called the effects of demonetization "transitory" and instead pointed to concerns that a "fire sale" in perishable foods was distorting what could be a worrying outlook for inflation.
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Dark energy may be distorting long-sought gravitational wave signals from distant sources in the universe, according to a paper posted to the arXiv pre-print server by astrophysicists at Penn State University.
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And that's certainly not the first time his reporting has come under fire: Over the years, progressive media watchdogs have regularly critiqued the host, accusing him of distorting facts and using misleading statistics.
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Grindr could end up over-censoring content or surveilling its platform more broadly, and "might end up distorting the marketplace in a way that ends up making us all worse off," Goldman said.
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"I think that we have to do a better job… to counteract voices that are distorting the reality of trade agreements," U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker told CNBC at the Hannover trade fair.
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"I think that we have to do a better job… to counteract voices that are distorting the reality of trade agreements," Penny Pritzker told CNBC at a leading trade fair in Hannover, Germany.
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Finally, to reduce the distorting effect of hapless minnows like the Cayman Islands and Bhutan, we whittled down our results to the 2002 countries that have played at least 150 matches since 1990.
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Finally, to reduce the distorting effect of hapless minnows like the Cayman Islands and Bhutan, we whittled down our results to the 126 countries that have played at least 150 matches since 1990.
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Earlier this year, sources told Reuters that U.S. pipeline operators were selling their underused space at steep discounts to keep crude flowing - angering customers and distorting an already opaque market for oil trading.
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However, Sunday's profit warning follows news over the weekend that Daimler must recall 60,000 Mercedes diesel cars in Germany after regulators found that they were fitted with software aimed at distorting emissions tests.
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Earlier this month, 12 U.S. senators asked the FCC to investigate Sinclair for "deliberately distorting news" after local news anchors at Sinclair stations around the country were told to read company-mandated scripts.
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The administration has shown little appetite to take on the most expensive and distorting tax breaks: those for mortgage interest and employer-provided health insurance, and, for corporations, a deduction for debt interest.
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CBT aims to lessen or stop harmful behavior by changing the way people think, stopping them from falling into established patterns of negatively distorting their reality to justify or account for unhelpful habits.
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How did you get into the mind of Corbett without distorting the facts or over-playing your hand as a reporter given the time that passed—and the fact that he isn't around?
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They resumed their battle on Monday, with Sanders accusing Clinton of distorting his record when she said he opposed the auto bailout credited with rescuing General Motors and Chrysler during the economic crisis.
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Trade-distorting measures, such as tariffs and subsidies, were up 40 percent in the first 10 months of 2015 in Group of 20 industrial nations, according to the Center for Economic Policy Research.
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"We also found that the measure will contribute to job creation and to the economic development of a disadvantaged region without unduly distorting competition," EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
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As part of a wide-ranging interference campaign during the 2016 election, Russian operatives used advertisements on social media platforms to sow division and discord, distorting public discourse and coarsening our political debate.
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Interactive Magnetic Field Theatre is an immersive artwork that drops viewers into outer space, atomic matrices, and life-sized landscapes, distorting perspective like a Yayoi Kusama infinity room with projections instead of mirrors.
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If the divergence between WPI and CPI is indeed distorting the data, its nefarious impact should soon disappear as year-on-year readings of commodity prices stabilise and so reunite the two series.
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Today, the heavily redacted official memory of the war functions as a distorting lens for Russia's more recent military engagements, turning any conflict into a story of Russia's heroic battle against its enemies.
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Examples abound of the federal government betting taxpayer money on economic losers, encouraging corporate welfare, distorting energy markets, propping up specific products, and trying to generate a market when one ceases to exist.
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In previous shows like "Out of Time" and "Edges of Light," Mr. Dunne has manipulated these intricate rhythmic patterns by dancing barefoot on a variety of surfaces or distorting the sound through electronics.
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In 22012, Michael Farmer, founding partner of the Red Kite fund that specialises in copper, also accused high-frequency traders using super-fast computers of distorting the market and getting an unfair advantage.
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Japan called on the United States to join forces in stopping China from taking market-distorting investment practices in a bilateral finance leaders' meeting, a senior Japanese finance ministry official said on Thursday.
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Taking the lesson forward My husband's question made me realize that my feelings of financial inadequacy — hangovers from the shame I felt growing up poor — were distorting my view of my financial reality.
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" Along the same lines, in Cleveland on Monday night, Iowa's far-right Senator Joni Ernst, distorting F.B.I. statements, warned the convention that "terrorists from ISIS are in every one of our 50 states.
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"Given the president's propensity to lie about almost everything, it is not surprising that Trump is grossly distorting what the Medicare for All legislation does," Sanders wrote in defense of his signature policy.
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Groups critical of the film have accused its director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, of distorting history by portraying a Muslim ruler as the "lover" of the Hindu Queen Padmavati of the Rajput warrior clan.
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The bureau uses something called the National Income and Product Accounts that Yardeni said could be distorting the corporate tax picture by including the state and local as well as the Fed receipts.
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Pacific Rim nation leaders agreed in Vietnam on Saturday to address "unfair trade practices" and "market distorting subsidies", a statement that bore the imprint of Trump's efforts to reshape the global trade landscape.
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Worse, you might find yourself surrounded by "yes" people — always there to remind you of how important and wonderful you are, further distorting your view and increasing your risk of catastrophically bad decisions.
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Others like Facebook and Instagram have started to roll out their own versions of Snapchat's face-distorting masks, and Apple on Tuesday announced that the new iPhone will offer augmented reality technology, too.
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Also on March 6, there is a new moon in Pisces at 11:04 AM. This new moon aligns with dreamy Neptune and the sun meets Neptune at 8:01 PM, distorting reality.
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And of course the classic word-of-mouth, tireless and distorting, which in the past had turned news into gossip, the wounded into dead, and more than one neighbor into a guerrilla collaborator.
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"As this case highlights, not only has China continued to maintain illegal market distorting policies since it joined the WTO, its policies are too often hidden behind a wall of secrecy," said Sen.
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Smith hangs the moment over her novel like a portent, a warning about memory and the distorting tricks it can play with the sense of self one takes—or makes—from the past.
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Better yet, serve it as a palate cleanser between courses, the better to appreciate the abundance of culinary opportunity our robot overlords have kindly coded into the reality-distorting subprogram we call Thanksgiving.
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Last year, some markets saw exceptional sales increases as dealerships stockpiled cars ahead of the September 9.13 introduction of WLTP emissions standards, distorting year-on-year comparisons, European car industry association ACEA said.
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How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages The U.S.C./Los Angeles Times poll has consistently been an outlier, showing Donald Trump in the lead or near the lead.
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But top American trade officials argue they're justified in their efforts to block the appointment of WTO judges and cripple the trade organization until it evolves to start addressing China's market-distorting capitalism.
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They say that it enables the creation of democracy-distorting dynasties who accumulate political power, and that tax policy should be used to rein them in more than the current tax code does.
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We're the ones who now look internationally isolated as opposed to the Chinese, which is where the attention of the global economy should be, because that's where the distorting policies are taking place.
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We call this the 'value grab' — because some companies take advantage of outdated, market-distorting government rules and regulations to either pay below fair-market rates, or avoid paying for that music altogether.
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And his bill doesn't ban behaviors like paid prioritization, which would allow an ISP to let companies with the deepest pocket get priority on the network, distorting the traditional level internet playing field.
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"The Commission has concerns that, at different periods between 2007 and 2012, the eight banks participated in a collusive scheme that aimed at distorting competition when acquiring and trading European government bonds," it said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has slapped down Japanese assertions that a deal is in the offing to resolve a decades-old territorial dispute, accusing Tokyo of distorting agreements struck with Moscow to break the deadlock.
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The BOJ has faced mounting criticism that its huge asset purchases are distorting markets and pushing Tokyo stock prices - which hit a near 26-year high this week - beyond levels justified by economic fundamentals.
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By avoiding the traditional vertical stacked arrays—where dozens of speakers all hit you with sound at subtly different times, distorting what you ultimately hear—you're meant to get a more direct, cleaner sound.
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In order to show people how facial recognition algorithms work by abstracting human features into statistical patterns, and distorting your own image into data that can be used against you, Crispin created DATA-MASKS.
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FRANKFURT, July 26 (Reuters) - Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche said the introduction of the new WLTP emissions testing procedure was causing delays getting Mercedes-Benz vehicles certified for road worthiness, distorting supply and demand.
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In one of its more striking findings, only 36 percent of Central Command officials surveyed said they were confident that their mid- and senior-level managers were not deliberately distorting or suppressing their analyses.
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In one of its more striking findings, only 36 percent of Central Command officials surveyed said they were confident that their mid- and senior-level managers were not deliberately distorting or suppressing their analyses.
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By his reckoning, though, the liberal media was already distorting reality, so when the opportunity came for him to launch his own channel in 1996, he set out to be the nation's corrective lens.
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DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific leaders on Saturday agreed to address "unfair trade practices" and urgently called for the removal of "market distorting subsidies," in contrast to communiques they have issued in the past.
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The lawmakers argue the U.S. routes may breach a 2018 aviation agreement between the United States and Qatar meant to address U.S. concerns that Gulf airlines are unfairly subsidized by their governments, distorting competition.
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Vietnam's National Assembly chairwoman on Friday said the lawmakers condemned "the acts of abusing democracy, distorting the truth, provoking, causing social disorder and greatly affecting the people's life," she said in a televised session.
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Lautenschlaeger warned that the ECB's own bond purchases, due to end in December, could also increase stability risk by reducing liquidity and distorting asset prices while its low rates could fuel asset price bubbles.
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"Every day you are inundated with an over-exposure of advertising and mainstream media, social media and endless comparisons, distorting the truth and trying to manipulate the power of positive thinking," he told them.
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We are aggressively fighting predatory foreign trade practices, breaking down barriers to American exports, addressing the theft of intellectual property and designs, and challenging market-distorting industrial subsidies that continue to harm American industries.
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Schumer and Booker are deliberately misrepresenting and distorting an article that Kavanaugh – currently serving on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia – wrote in the Minnesota Law Review in 2009.
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"You didn't have already the tentacles of Obamacare, you didn't already have the damage, the destruction, the harm created by Obamacare driving premiums up, distorting health-care markets and health-insurance markets," Johnson said.
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Calm discussion of the House and Republican health bills, therefore, suggests that individual features -- such as repeal of highly distorting taxes -- make sense as good economics; they are not merely giveaways to the rich.
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They warned in a statement last week that by 2030, nine big WTO members would be entitled to a combined $1 trillion in trade-distorting farm subsidies, creating risks for trade and food security.
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Also appearing at the session will be his aide Hiroto Izumi, and Kihei Maekawa, who resigned as the education ministry's top bureaucrat in January and has accused the government of distorting the approval process.
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The belief that opportunity now exists only for a highly educated and networked elite is distorting our politics and, unless faced and addressed, will affect in dangerous ways the outcome of the November election.
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This would be comparable to what the Fed tries to do through its interest-rate manipulations, but without the distorting effects of the Fed's misjudgments as to the direction and magnitude of economic activity.
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This gap is not only unfair to high-effective-rate-paying companies, but it also hurts the economy by distorting the allocation of investment among industries and artificially subsidizing certain industries while penalizing others.
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The governments of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar have pumped more than $2628 billion in subsidies and unfair benefits to the Gulf carriers, distorting the aviation market and violating Open Skies agreements.
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He also continued to parrot the Republican hypocrisy surrounding a woman's reproductive rights while distorting the truth on reproductive freedom bills in New York and Virginia, describing ghoulish, untrue situations the bills would allow.
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Among this latter group are some who fear that our interest rates have been too low for far too long, creating market bubbles, distorting the economy, and planting seeds for a potential financial crisis.
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The language with which you talk about these things, Bhaskar — framing things in terms of movements and ideologies and well-defined classes and interests — inevitably causes you to see things through a distorting lens.
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"Conte, like any researcher, went abroad to study, to deepen his knowledge, to perfect his English legal language skills," the party said, adding that the Italian and international press were deliberately distorting Conte's record.
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"America has China's attention, so instead of more tariffs, the U.S. and China should immediately begin working toward a fair, bilateral, enforceable, rules-based trade agreement to end China's market-distorting activities," Timmons said.
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"Compared with government debt, these assets have low trading volume and low liquidity, so BOJ purchases stand a high chance of distorting these markets," said Shinichi Fukuda, a professor of economics at Tokyo University.
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As for the wide-angle shots that keep distorting even the plainest of compositions, we get the point: all of high society, and not just the creature at its apex, is gouty with excess.
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"Instead of targeting fairly traded U.S. exports, China needs to stop its unfair trading practices which are harming U.S national security and distorting global markets," White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said in a statement.
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The astral energy projecting itself onto you in June will be an all-encompassing, distorting force, enabling your darkest emotions and causing you to feel like your closest friends are judging your past decisions.
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Reality shows such as "The Bachelorette" are known for sometimes distorting the messiest aspects of dating or making friends (or enemies), turning some contestants into villains and creating drama for the sake of ratings.
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Joe Biden, who some polls place as the front-runner by an itty-bitty margin, claimed the Sanders camp was trying to hurt him by releasing a video distorting his position on Social Security.
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"Right now in these states, Republicans have total control over the redistricting process and/or have been among the worst actors in voter suppression, fueling political extremism and distorting national outcomes," Forward Majority wrote.
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Trump appears sensitive to the weak points of his political pitch, and spent the weekend tweeting out glowing testimonials about the economy from allies and accusing journalists of distorting the successes of his presidency.
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"By distorting the features and culture of African Americans—including their looks, language, dance, deportment and character—white Americans were able to codify whiteness across class and geopolitical lines as its antithesis," NMAAHC says.
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That is how you wind up with Khizr Khan standing on stage beside his head-scarved wife, waving around the U.S. Constitution and distorting Donald Trump's position on keeping radical Islamic terrorism at bay.
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Also appearing at the session will be his aide, Hiroto Izumi, and Kihei Maekawa, who resigned as the education ministry's top bureaucrat in January and has accused the government of distorting the approval process.
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If another election were the only way to hold a president accountable for distorting an election to gain and retain power, then there is no way to ensure a true government by the people.
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The significance of Bigelow's achievement cannot be overstated, yet it has had a curious distorting effect on the perceptions some show business people have about the number of female directors working on major films.
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Though the modernists played with vases and flowers, distorting them into Cubist near-abstractions, or incorporating collage in ways that were revolutionary at the time, still life innovation may have peaked in that era.
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"The Commission has concerns that, at different periods between 2007 and 2012, the eight banks participated in a collusive scheme that aimed at distorting competition when acquiring and trading European government bonds," the Commission said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany needs to keep a closer eye on the influence of funds and institutional investors on German business because they may be distorting competition, the head of the Monopolies Commission said on Tuesday.
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With President Trump actively distorting the truth and many of his own colleagues helping him do it, the Fox News star prided himself on anchoring a newscast that countered the network's pro-Trump opinion shows.
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Foreign firms doing business in China or competing with Chinese rivals faced deeper and broader obstacles, he said, adding that Beijing was providing "massive, market-distorting subsidies" and "skewing the playing field... in myriad ways".
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And while it is Mr. Kelly who is currently casting shadows over Mr. Bratton's statistics, the same sorts of accusations about distorting numbers were thrust at Mr. Kelly from various corners when he was commissioner.
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The report also reflects the United States' continued frustration with the WTO's inability to curb what it sees as China's trade-distorting non-market economic policies, and offered little hope that situation could change soon.
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This fake trolling has the effect of distorting reality, catering to middle America's worst fears about people of other races and political beliefs, and making progressive political movements seem more extreme than they actually are.
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What I'm saying instead is that nobody can be presumed pure simply because he is currently without much power or access to power — for that very lack of power can have its own distorting effect.
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A Canadian government source, speaking broadly about how targets were chosen, said the government sought products that could be found easily outside the United States, and focused on final goods to avoid distorting supply chains.
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"The Fed, with their focus on low interest rates, is distorting the savings function, not only in the United States but on a global basis, and savings of course is connected to investment," he said.
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Kuroda said the BOJ had no plans now to stop or review its purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETF), despite growing criticism from market players that the central bank's huge presence was distorting the market.
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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil opened a formal complaint against Canada at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday, accusing the country of distorting the global aerospace industry with subsidies for planemaker Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO).
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"The Commission has concerns that, at different periods between 2007 and 2012, the eight banks participated in a collusive scheme that aimed at distorting competition when acquiring and trading European government bonds," the Commission said.
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The impetus for minimizing interference is a deep-seated belief that attempts to meddle in markets via industrial policy, "command and control" regulations, and targeted spending tend to backfire, distorting the economy and slowing growth.
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Last week, Saudi Arabia suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of "distorting facts", just after a report of a phone call between the leaders of both countries suggested a breakthrough in the Gulf dispute.
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Occasionally, sceptics will have a go at the "mainstream media" for distorting the facts, though in the case of the EU, the Times, Telegraph, Sun, Mail and Express are all broadly in the Brexit camp.
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Snapchat does have filters, but the dumb ones are the most fun, especially the ones that add a comically hideous effect — bloating your face into a red tomato, or distorting it into an animal mask.
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Yet they also had the unfortunate side effect of giving credence to the prevailing idea that, no matter how deep you dig, there is always a secret, permanent government distorting the will of the people.
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We're distorting every single aspect of the human stack, and meanwhile, we're talking about meditation and how good it's been for us and the cool programs that are helping Googlers and Facebook people meditate more.
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"If people are distorting my record, as is the case right now, we are going to deal with it, and I have dealt with it, and we will continue to deal with it," he said.
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"Our hope is that this step will overcome the problems we face with distorting the name and that the correct terms will dissolve into general knowledge, " a press statement from the Czech foreign ministry said.
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Among other things, the workers were accused of distorting the results by directing residents to run their water before it was tested and failing to collect samples from some houses they were required to test.
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"The work questions if our fear of insulting others causes society to 'zip' up and shut down, thus distorting and restricting our ability to communicate, as well as evading discussions on important issues," Elliott says.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The United States, European Union and Japan said on Tuesday they agreed to cooperation in the World Trade Organization to deal with excess factory capacity and other market distorting trade practices.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Barr was clearly peeved, even defiant, at the criticism that his actions had played a distorting role in molding the narrative of the Mueller report in a way that benefited his boss.
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" Out of the nine months he spent working on Mind Frame, the artist spent the majority of his time drawing and redrawing facial features and hands, "distorting aspects of space vs time, the self vs.
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But as a documentary with access to one of the world's most remote locations, this fantasy feels insufficient and even distorting, particularly when common threats that connect every species — like climate change — are never mentioned.
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Their relationship serves as a Rorschach test for Melchor's narrators, whose actions reveal not only the details of the crime but the fears, resentments and unacknowledged lusts that condense around it like a distorting mist.
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Whether current anxiety develops into a full-blown panic depends on whether the federal government has learned the final lesson of past pandemics: withholding information, distorting facts, and downplaying the threat always makes matters worse.
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In a five-minute video produced by his conspiracy-laden website, InfoWars, Mr. Jones runs through a list of offenders on "terroristic social media," distorting and cherry-picking comments, to make a wildly misleading case.
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Saudi Arabia on Saturday suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of "distorting facts," just after a report of a phone call between the leaders of both countries suggested a breakthrough in the Gulf dispute.
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Lighthizer and his counterparts from Japan and the European Union on Tuesday also took aim at Chinese subsidies that they say are distorting the worldwide economy, proposing new global trade rules to address such practices.
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Jackson — yes, privileged by his rarefied position in publishing, but also still attuned, by dint of birth and background and experience, to the distorting effects of race — finds himself at the straining center of these extremities.
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But we know enough about the basic shape of needed reforms to know that what Perry proposes is a step backward, a grievous and distorting blow to markets that would attempt to undo their greatest success.
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"The U.S. Department of Defense considers China a rising strategic competitor, and according to the U.S. Trade Representative, China has conducted industrial espionage and other market-distorting practices," Citi's Cesar Rojas and Catherine Mann wrote Tuesday.
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This book seeks to initiate a conversation on the growth of these innovations, with the hope that by exposing and explaining the distorting effects of data-driven policing, society can plan for its big data future.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union executive accused Hungary's nationalist government on Monday of distorting the truth about immigration into the bloc, marking a further deterioration in their troubled relationship ahead of European Parliament elections in May.
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The seemingly irreconcilable distance between the couple, for example, is often accentuated by making characters stand uncannily far apart from one another, or distorting camera angles to make spaces seem much larger than they actually are.
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Implementing a reform like this would be a step toward repairing and normalizing a process that is now dangerously broken, infuriatingly random, and distorting both our politics and the judges we choose to interpret our laws.
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Since 2015 the largest U.S carriers - Delta Air Lines , American and United Airlines - have argued their Gulf rivals are being unfairly subsidized by their governments, distorting competition and costing U.S. jobs - something the Gulf carriers deny.
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In a tweet after his plane took off, Trump said he had had "great meetings on everything, especially on trade", highlighting the part of the communique which called "for the removal of all trade-distorting practices".
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The incumbent exchanges have said in the past that allowing Cboe to piggyback off their closing auction prices would siphon orders away from the listing markets, distorting prices and making it harder to get trades done.
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Commodity specialists complain the prevalence of high-frequency trading has reached a tipping point, distorting prices and forcing the closure long-established hedge funds ("Data overload: commodity hedge funds close as computers dominate," Reuters, Feb. 12).
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Where Trump felt the media wasn't giving him a fair shake, he turned to his Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts — between which he has amassed 25 million followers collectively — to bypass the media, a distorting middleman.
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China has aggressively used "market-distorting subsidies" and "forced technology transfers" to capture traditional and emerging technology industries, Brent Christensen, the director of America's de facto embassy in Taipei, told a business gathering in late September.
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Regarding China, where he will travel in early June for the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue meetings, Lew said he would continue to press Beijing to reduce excess industrial capacity that is distorting world markets.
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With high-contrast cinematography, distorting angles, internal monologues, dream sequences, and flashbacks, Ayala captures a mind and a world knocked out of whack by epochal destruction and by impotence in the face of ongoing political crises.
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"There are various ways in the short run to reduce the bilateral trade deficit, but this would be done in ways that are essentially market-distorting," Lee Branstetter, a Carnegie Mellon University economist, told Business Insider.
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The series begins with a bang, as Singh (Saif Ali Khan) is contacted by an anonymous caller who sits, Wizard-of-Oz-like, before a bank of computer monitors, distorting his voice and masking his location.
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So, they have avoided weekly chaos and gotten needed military spending through by opening the spending bill, and they got an important reduction in growth-distorting marginal corporate rates through by accepting a bit more deficits.
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He doubles his voice, distorting it in and out of sync with itself: "You were so cruel / And it was her house," he sings, the second voice fading into the quiet of the home he describes.
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Still, Mr. Trump hasn't let go of the distorting talking point that drugs and criminals are pouring through more remote stretches of border, and he harps on a wall as the best way to stop them.
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There now exists a massive and intrusive platform, possessed of an extractive power so immense and a monopoly on information so unaccountable that it can legitimately be said to have a distorting effect on our democracy.
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Because, while reading a cover story in New York magazine, it occurred to me that Twitter is the political pornography of our time: revealing but distorting, exciting but dulling, debasing to its users, and, well, ejaculatory.
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Regionally, Saudi Arabia on Saturday suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of "distorting facts", just after a report of a phone call between the leaders of both countries suggested a breakthrough in the Gulf dispute.
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" The Trump White House initially laid out ambitious plans to restructure the United States' relationship with China, including addressing what a 2018 United States Trade Representative investigation concluded were Beijing's "unfair, unreasonable, and market-distorting practices.
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The People's Bank of China (PBOC) late last year introduced a new band to guide interest rates on loans and deposits, abolishing official restrictions on such rates that market participants had criticised for distorting capital flows.
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Mr. Duda, responding to an American reporter's question about his own actions toward the news media, accused Polish journalists of intentionally distorting his record and failing to include his positions in articles critical of his government.
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According to officials familiar with the situation, those steps include distorting the whistleblower's appearance, having them testify in a remote location or holding a staff-only session that would prohibit lawmakers from attending and asking questions.
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" The Trump White House initially laid out ambitious plans to restructure the United States' relationship with China, including addressing what a 2018 United States Trade Representative investigation concluded were Beijing's "unfair, unreasonable, and market-distorting practices.
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The Trump administration has not been shy about rolling back expensive federal regulations and mandates that have outlived their usefulness, so this proposal to freeze the market-distorting CAFE standards should not come as a surprise.
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UN officials say this direct payment system will avoid distorting local markets by flooding them with free food, and relieve the UN of the burden of running food convoys that are vulnerable to attacks and theft.
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China pledged earlier this year to end market-distorting subsidies for its domestic industries but offered no details on how it would achieve that goal, three people familiar with the trade talks told Reuters in February.
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To support that process, China should broaden market access to American firms and respond to American complaints about allegedly market-distorting trade practices, such as export subsidies, illegal acquisitions of intellectual property, forced technology transfers and more.
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Gaslighting Made famous by the movie "Gaslight," in which a husband gradually destroys his wife's confidence in reality, this technique for distorting issues involves applying the drip-drip of disinformation in order to confuse and eventually persuade.
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Earlier in September, Saudi Arabia suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of "distorting facts," just after a report of a phone call between the leaders of the two countries suggested a possible breakthrough in the dispute.
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This dynamic has a direct effect on banks' willingness to lend capital into the real economy, distorting the money supply as measured by M2, which includes cash (M1) and short-term cash alternatives like money market funds.
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Over the last decade, Mann has been singled out by Republican senators and Pennsylvania and Virginia officials, who falsely accused the scientist of distorting his data and perpetuating the "hoax" that human activities are causing climate change.
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The European Union has grown increasingly frustrated by what it sees as the slowness of China to open its economy and by a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical EU sectors, accusing it of distorting local markets.
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"Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state-led, market-distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property," the official said.
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Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of "distorting facts," just after a report of a phone call between the leaders of the two countries suggested a breakthrough in the Gulf dispute.
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And that is what worries analysts, who for some time now have been concerned that interventions by central banks were distorting markets by making them less liquid and creating anomalies such as what currently exists in Japan.
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At The Hill, Mr. Zimmerman, the senior director for audience and strategy, said his goal is to emulate the attitude and approach of sites like Gawker and BuzzFeed without distorting what he calls The Hill's distinct voice.
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The task now is to make sure that the debate is honest and true and bends toward the better, instead of settling into our status quo standoff — or worse, distorting facts in a way that is detrimental.
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"We, to address this critical concern, agreed to enhance trilateral cooperation in the WTO and in other forums, as appropriate, to eliminate these and other unfair market distorting and protectionist practices by third countries," the statement said.
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Since first implementing unprecedented monetary policy tools in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Fed has been accused of manipulating interest rates and distorting the market's ability to price financial assets.
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With grief distorting their faces, some parents said they initially could not believe their children when they finally confided in them about the abuse, especially on hearing that they had been sitting close by when it happened.
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Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, referring to the China-Vietnam issue, said the United States had again and again "made thoughtless remarks, made warrantless criticisms against China, completely distorting the facts and confusing right from wrong".
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Using a reel-to-reel tape machine — and other methods for looping, delaying and distorting — Ms. Bertucci took the singer's extended-technique vocalizations and created vivid new canvases of sound, thick with slurred textures and harsh eruptions.
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He also talked about a world where all countries treat each other fairly and where hard work, ingenuity, and natural resources determine economic outcomes -- not protectionist laws and policies distorting what should otherwise be market-driven results.
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The measure is partly "based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state-led, market-distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property, " principal Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah said in a statement Wednesday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Saturday suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of "distorting facts", just after a report of a phone call between the leaders of both countries suggested a breakthrough in the Gulf dispute.
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These and other predatory behaviors are distorting the global markets and harming businesses and workers not just in the US, but around the global, just like we expect the leaders of other countries to protect their interests.
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DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific leaders agreed on Saturday to address "unfair trade practices" and "market distorting subsidies" in a statement that bore the imprint of U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape the global trade landscape.
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In Vietnam at the weekend, Trump and leaders of Pacific Rim nations agreed to address "unfair trade practices" and "market- distorting subsidies", a statement that bore the imprint of Trump's efforts to reshape the global trade landscape.
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Members of his team liked to grouse off the record that the Washington think tank community was "Arab-occupied territory," implying that Gulf state money was exerting a systematic distorting influence over the Washington foreign policy elite.
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Being able to determine when signals are particularly distorted by concentrated distorting activity in the ionosphere can help make sure that autonomous navigation takes into account and forecasts for these things in order to help mitigate their impact.
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When it comes to climate change, leaders of the conservative movement have waged a decades-long war to weaken the authority of scientific institutions, to cast them as tools of the liberal tribe, distorting truth for political ends.
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The film "Padmaavat" ran into trouble after groups critical of the project accused its director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, of distorting history by portraying a Muslim ruler as the "lover" of Queen Padmavati of the Hindu Rajput warrior clan.
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"The Fed's practice of paying banks to keep money parked at the Fed in deposit accounts instead of going into the economy is unhealthy and distorting; the rate should come down quickly as the practice is phased out."
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The gap is seen as a major factor in distorting Libya's oil-dependent economy, contributing to a liquidity crisis and causing corruption as those with access to dollars at the official rate make huge profits through import scams.
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The Commission, which rules on competition issues in the European Union, said Belgium's "excess profit" tax system was illegal as it was granted to a select number of multinationals, but not to smaller companies, and so distorting competition.
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Chinese diplomat Jiang Duan told the council on Thursday a few hypocritical Western nations were distorting facts to smear Beijing over what it describes as vocational training centers in Xinjiang intended to combat extremism and provide new skills.
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