Denying such consent any validity, and educating people in that conviction, could prevent such distortions.
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Being perceptible entities, places are, on the one hand, more susceptible to perspectival distortions and manipulations.
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Such distortions may well contribute to the formation of false self-behavior, if a child accepts the altered version of his/her experience.
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Psychoanalytic object relations theory, with its focus on idiosyncratic distortions, may be able to make a significant contribution.
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The results of the two examples suggest that aggregation can lead to distortions such that the structure of individual series can no longer be recognized.
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Biased attention to signals of threat or danger are thought to create cognitive distortions through a process of overactivation.
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The same could be expected to be true for other 'canonical' institutions, such as market economies subject to fixed distortions.
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In particular, the economic distortions associated with price policies are predicted to be quite large and such policies also will primarily benefit high-income groups.
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Therefore, the findings from the study provide implications for only these specific distortions.
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Such a finding provides further evidence for the importance of treating children with such distortions through alternative intervention strategies, potentially in educational settings.
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A general equilibrium analysis identifies influences that such distortions have on poverty and environment.
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Due to transaction costs, tax distortions, bureaucratic inefficiencies, or corruption, this share is less than one.
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Attempts to diversify the cereal-dominated system must, therefore, incorporate appropriate policy reforms designed to reduce the distortions which have favoured cereal production.
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Using country averages for some variables and city averages for others introduces its own distortions.
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Moreover, the presence of distortions, such as the two-tier price system and hugely differentiated taxes increase the likelihood of a double dividend.
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distortion
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complete distortion
That was humbug and a complete distortion of the facts.
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deliberate distortion
That is a deliberate distortion of the facts.
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distortion of reality
In these circumstances, to count mortgage payments as expenditures on housing could amount to a significantdistortionofreality.
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