The skewed incentives distorted our economy and our society.

The Cold War distorted that wisdom.

It doesn't just kill everybody, it mangles the bodies beyond all recognition.

The result last time felt real, but too dark so it was blurred.

In countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, military interventions have disfigured the original intent and contents of the constitutions and thwarted the evolution of a secular system.

Many countries like Malaysia were smeared in Vienna for allegedly refusing to accept the universality of human rights.

Kiran, if you read science fiction, you might think that humans in the future will be slender, short, bald with big heads and big eyes.

The decisions taken during that Conference, whose aims have been distorted and misinterpreted, are only a small step forward.

The problem gave the entire diplomatic community a bad name, prompting countermeasures from landlords and creditors that affected everyone.

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

Political transitions were marred by violence in some African countries, prompting good offices efforts by the United Nations and others to prevent disputes from escalating into armed conflicts.

48. The current methodology for calculating rates of assessment distorted the apportionment of expenses according to capacity to pay, a principle laid down in rule 160 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly.

The European Community and its member States deem that the Mediterranean lends itself in a characteristic way to this overall consideration, following the end of the cold war which distorted this view in favour of an East West perception.

We confused means with ends. Our bloated financial sector grew to the point that in the United States it accounted for more than 40 of corporate profits.

(b) As to the list of persons who allegedly died from torture or were killed by the Serbian police and military (annex, under A. Statement, pp. 2 and 3), it can be easily established that the facts are distorted or misrepresented.

The latter, using the fight against dumping and the protection of the environment as an excuse, had changed the nature of the comparative advantage principle, the only instrument available to developing countries to achieve a more equitable participation in international trade.

Mendacity in the Communist press, which distorted the protests meaning and personally attacked student leaders, inflamed matters more. The party resorted to anti Semitic propaganda, pointing to the Jewish ancestry of some of the student leaders.

Environmental experts are of the view that factors such as the impact of colonization, the dispossession of the indigenous population, discriminatory land legislation and the imposition of apartheid distorted environmental perceptions and attitudes and alienated Black South Africans from the environment issue.

8. In the past, the structural flaws in the development of Namibia and the discriminatory nature of that development had distorted per capita income to such an extent that continued special assistance to Namibia on a scale comparable to that provided to a least developed country was strongly justified.

ISTANBUL Turkey s beleaguered Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) have emerged victorious from this week s local elections. Still, the AKP s triumph is unlikely to ameliorate the country s internal conflicts, much less revive its tarnished international standing.

For there to be any genuine possibility of a lasting resolution to the conflict, all parties, including the international community, have to abandon the simplistic and one sided representations that have distorted the true reality, and recognize that no side has a monopoly on suffering and that the dreams of neither side can be fulfilled in full.