In some cases, this will harm free trade, and governments should be careful to avoid measures that distort resource allocation.

Globalized production platforms distort bilateral trade data between the US and China, and have little to do with the exchange rate.

The US seems more reluctant than ever to exercise the leverage that it still has to press China to correct policies that threaten to distort trade, foster huge trade imbalances, and spark greater competition for scarce raw materials.

Cultural barriers are apt to distort what is heard.

Brazil, frustrated with America s intransigence, brought a case against US cotton subsidies before the WTO, which ruled as almost any economist would the subsidies distort world trade and are therefore prohibited.

We would like to see the building of an international trade system that has clear, equitable and consistent rules, as well as the elimination of practices that distort trade, generate unfair competition and interfere with the terms of exchange and access to markets.

Fair trade is necessary to achieve this objective, since agricultural subsidies in developed countries distort world prices and hurt farmers in developing countries, thereby contributing to high rural poverty in the latter.

Both perceptions distort reality, though both contain a kernel of truth.

Any attempt to distort or even deny resolution 2758 (XXVI) is futile.

External factors, such as occupation, change or distort relations between the sexes.

And, as President Bush said on Wednesday, the United States is prepared to take new action to accelerate this progress we will eliminate all tariffs and subsidies that distort free trade as other nations do the same.

The resulting higher tax rates distort economic incentives and thus weaken future economic performance.

You distort it a little bit, especially in terms of pitch, and you've changed it.

In this regard, any attempt to distort history would set back the goal of reconciliation.

For example, by disfavoring lending to private firms, state owned banks distort the allocation of resources.

Until recently, Exxon Mobil and other companies paid lobbyists to try to distort the public debate.

And donor agencies often recruit the best local talent themselves, usually at salaries that distort the labor market.

Too often, however, governments ignore or distort public aspirations, stripping the discussion of all but officially approved platitudes.

Those who hinder from the path of God , and seek to distort it , and who deny the Hereafter .

Those who hinder from the path of God , and seek to distort it , and who deny the Hereafter .

They must also ensure that additional official financing and debt relief will not distort incentives or create moral hazard.

Current discussions also tend to ignore and even distort the values that European institutional arrangements are supposed to serve.

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

Emerging economies have watched the leveraged power of investors distort the price formation process in crisis stricken advanced economies.

Those who prevent from the path of Allah and wish to distort it and who disbelieve in the Hereafter .

Those who prevent from the path of Allah and wish to distort it and who disbelieve in the Hereafter .

Our legal institutions cannot do their work if there are parallel structures that distort rather than strengthen national capacities.

Nothing about financial intermediation justifies allowing banks to distort the economy and endanger the public as much as they do.

Media outlets in many parts of the world often serve only to inflame and distort rather than to explain and inform.

The Palestinian people wanted peace, but could not allow Israel to distort the representation of the real situation on the ground.

But, too often, such revenues distort economic incentives, which come to favor rent seeking and interfere with the diversification that is essential for growth.

The European Commission said in a statement that such advantage is clearly selective, is financed from State resources and is liable to distort competition.

They rely very heavily on teachers, who I have personally seen distort the message to these children as and when it suits their purpose to.

Even more disturbing is the attempt to distort the decisions of various international forums and to present Turkish aims as being compatible with international law.

And you see that when you distort a map based on attention, the world within American television news is basically reduced to this giant bloated U.S.

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.

Questions of proof of the making of the signature (which exist for both handwritten and electronic signatures) should not distort the law on the validity of signatures.

We do not believe that international peace and security are built up and strengthened through the delegation of decisions that affect and distort national and regional dynamics.

The conventional wisdom is, however, wrong worse, it is dangerous, for we have all seen how quickly it can take hold, distort reality, and then harden like cement.

But the financial interests involved tend to distort the process by creating incentives to overestimate the benefits of new drugs, underestimate the risks, and, above all, boost prescriptions.

Flawed regulations further distort weak banks behavior for example, by biasing them in favor of making loans to governments or investing in marketable securities over lending to businesses.

Do you hope that they will believe in you , when some of them used to hear the Word of God , and then deliberately distort it , even after understanding it ?

Do you hope that they will believe in you , when some of them used to hear the Word of God , and then deliberately distort it , even after understanding it ?

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The issue is not free trade versus protectionism, but smart trade versus polarizing trade.