But hindsight distorts analysis.

It's notorious Commission for the Prevention of Virtue and Prevention of Vice raids shops in the run up to Valentine's Day, forcing owners to remove all symbols of the Valentine's, including roses, hearts, balloons and red wrapping paper.

It clouds story of entrepreneurship, success and innovation.

If they don't change their appearance, only one of eight kills, tortures or mutilates.

Education (traditional or from the outside) whitewashed our thoughts, reset our minds, it didn t work for us.

Mixing those two concepts would blur the meaning of the very tenets of this Organization.

To have included the KNVB's large membership would have distorted the picture of the national trend.

But, worse than that, blindness to what really happened in the past can distort the development of your society.

Moreover, these studies typically pool castes into three large groups, which distorts the real picture.

Finally, unlike in Iraq, the intervention did not fundamentally rupture the inner structure of the Afghan state or threaten its very cohesion.

It discredits liberalism by employing liberal rhetoric and appointing liberal leaders to administer its authoritarian rule, leaving political opposition to leftist parties and nationalists.

But the past, especially when not handled with care, can be the enemy of the future and distort our reading of the challenges of the present.

In the view of Mr. Suki, corruption invariably distorts at least one fundamental principle of political participation, namely the equality of the vote .

This implicit subsidy not only costs each country s taxpayers billions of euros it also distorts competition, because not all implicit subsidies are created equal.

Furthermore, the Council distorts the Charter's spirit and its provisions by means of its increasingly intrusive agenda, which usurps functions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council.

Although the draft resolution was very weak and groundless, it was also harmful as it distorted the facts and hindered his Government's ability to defend constitutional order.

The fact that only one out of 18 members will be from the Hamas ruled Gaza Strip, which contains about half of all the Palestinians that Fatah governs, also skews the results.

While these findings demonstrate the shadings of opinion across Iraq s dominant communities, they do not explain attitudes that may be behind the continuing violence that disfigures Iraqi life.

Today, the Kremlin is contributing to its own violent demise, intentionally demoralizing Russian society. It discredits liberalism by employing liberal rhetoric and appointing liberal leaders to administer its authoritarian rule, leaving political opposition to leftist parties and nationalists.

India s complex system of national and state sales taxes distorts domestic trade. Replacing these taxes with a national value added tax and using revenue sharing to the states has been long debated and should now be enacted.

Nobody wants to demonize or unnecessarily restrict private equity and hedge funds, and venture capital s investment in innovative and high risk new companies highlights their potentially useful role.

Protectionism is not just about raising tariffs on imports it is any government action that distorts the global production and allocation of goods, services, and capital to favor domestic producers, thereby reducing overall efficiency.