“The distortionary effects of taxes very much depend on their interplay with benefit systems.”

“The reforms introduced or announced to date mainly concern direct taxes, which typically have large distortionary effects.”

“However, if people are motivated to work by the idea of leaving their families an inheritance, the tax will be distortionary.”

“Deformation band propagation, where shear occurs along the band, is predicted by distortional strain energy density.”

“At the three modelled upper tip depths, the magnitude of predicted distortional strain energy density remains greater than the critical value.”

“These locations correspond to the damage zones where our numerical models predict elevated distortional strain energy densities.”

“Flat tax-rates on a broad base are less distortive than high marginal rates on a narrow base.”

“Moreover, Measures A and D were divided into payment tranches to counterbalance any possible distortive effects.”

“It should be in proportion to the distortive effects of the aid and to the relative importance of the firm on its market or markets.”

“But between us lay a broken and distorted mass of crevassed glacier, the passage of which seemed very doubtful.”

“It would be difficult, without having recourse to geometrical formulæ, to explain how it happens that by placing the eye at a particular point, the distorted lines of the drawing become symmetrical.”

“Victor Emmanuel hated to wear any ceremonial dress likely to emphasize his distorted figure.”