With the government bearing losses, these are distorted prices. Bank losses have already occurred, and their gains must now come at taxpayers expense.

While cross border capital flows and interest and exchange rates must be liberalized to maintain economic development, such reforms raise the risk of asset bubbles if implemented under distorted benchmark prices.

The Cold War distorted that wisdom.

The global financial system remains distorted and dangerous.

Market signals are more distorted, fueling resource misallocations.

Let us not be blinded by distorted images.

The senator charged that I had distorted the data.

The skewed incentives distorted our economy and our society.

Indeed, it is clear that ratings were ridiculously distorted.

Three widespread misconceptions distorted the coverage of Kim s visit to China.

Meanwhile, savers are being repressed, asset prices distorted, and incentives to maintain or even increase leverage enhanced. Competitive devaluations, even if they are not policymakers stated objectives, are becoming increasingly tempting though they will not solve the aggregate demand problem.

When we get a distorted picture, we are likely to make wrong choices.

Often the image appears as a distorted mixture of up and down parts.

The Commission on Human Rights continues to be distorted by opportunistic political factors.

That description was inaccurate and gave a distorted picture of the distribution of responsibilities.

This picture is both badly distorted and harmful to the victims of the Chernobyl accident.

The franc zone s plight is being compounded by distorted and dysfunctional economic and monetary policies.

But neglecting to report research can lead to distorted clinical practice recommendations, suffering, and death.

The Fire will scorch their faces and they will abide therein with their faces distorted .

The Fire will scorch their faces and they will abide therein with their faces distorted .

Age specific sex ratios in Aruba have been distorted by the immigration of foreign workers.

I don t really look that ugly, but the camera is so close that it s just distorted.

These two versions of the Chavez years are both distorted to a certain degree by nostalgia.

with downcast eyes and faces distorted in shame such is the Day which they are promised .

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

In the case of small island developing States, such data tended to give a distorted picture.

Unfortunately, one must wonder to what extent these ratings are distorted by the eurozone countries political power.

Government officials have identified far too closely with the distorted, self interested worldview of global banking executives.

Secondly, because the ruling of the Constitutional Court distorted the facts of the case and was arbitrary.

A distorted view of the present is the worst way to prepare for the challenges of the future.

Mendacity in the Communist press, which distorted the protests meaning and personally attacked student leaders, inflamed matters more.

The image has been distorted by Global Voices to protect the personal information of the person in question.

We feel it is tragic that dwelling on a distorted past overshadows our hopes for a brighter future.

Prices

Food prices are soaring. Oil prices are at historic highs.

But the picture Russia presented to others and to itself was massively distorted. Parliament was lively, but essentially powerless.

The current Singaporean government claims the film gives a distorted and untruthful account of how came to leave Singapore .

The missing limb often feels shorter and may feel as if it is in a distorted and painful position.

Housing prices peaked in 2006, and equity prices peaked in 2007.

Shortages of natural gas increased fertilizer prices, pushing up food prices.

These may be either the best country prices or perhaps even international prices, but they are not local farm gate prices.

Part of the problem is that expectations had been distorted by a metaphor that described events in short run terms.

The career of his political mentor, Menachem Begin, demonstrated that distorted analogies between past and present can inspire irresponsible policies.

The reason is stated that women, burdened with patriarchal upbringing, have a distorted image of violence and even tolerate it.

The General Assembly is being asked to view events in the region through the distorted lens of one sided perceptions.