Governments are able to maintain discriminatory procurement practices which significantly distort trade and reduce potential growth.
»Local prices may be distorted by trade barriers, sales taxes, or big differences in the cost of inputs such as rents.
»They claim she deliberately distorted information and put families at risk.
»These companies systematically distort the truth - by design.
»Critics said the speaker not only distorted the facts but unfairly criticized one of the city's great success stories.
One way to reduce the resulting price distortions is to cut subsidies.
»Another distortion of the unemployment rate is the high level of hidden employment.
He was accused of grossly distorting the facts.
his face was distorted with /by/ pain - его лицо исказилось от боли
to distort facts - извращать /передёргивать/ факты
to distort the meaning of a text - исказить смысл текста
to distort facts — извращать / искажать факты
to distort news — искажать информацию
to distort the true state of affairs — искажать подлинное положение дел
to distort the truth — искажать истину
1. искажать; искривлять; перекашивать
his face was ~ed with /by/ pain - его лицо исказилось от боли
2. искажать, извращать, передёргивать
to ~ facts - извращать /передёргивать/ факты
to ~ the meaning of a text - исказить смысл текста
3. тех. деформировать; коробить
• Do the twist?
• Get out of shape
• Give a misleading account of
• Make fuzzy
• Make too much of, maybe
• Misrepresent
• Skew
• Twist
• Twist out of shape
• Twist, in a way
• Warp
Викривити
перекрутити
спотворювати
перекручувати
викривляти
здеформувати
спотворити
перекручувати, викривляти, спотворювати
- distorted- distort a law- distort a rule