But in some situations the seasonal adjustment may go too far and give investors a distorted view.
We hear a distorted voice because the bones in our head affect the sound we hear internally.
And I think it gives a distorted image that yes, not everybody hires nannies, and caretakers and nurses.
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It has already been proved that deaf birds, who cannot hear their own voices, soon develop a distorted song.
What they do gain is a distorted, pessimistic perspective on their lives.
"I've got an itchy finger, " Rose sings in a distorted whine.
Like Spencer, Lowry has suffered from a distorted public image.
The book is a polemic, and its main target is what Mr de Waal takes to be a distorted idea of human life as relentlessly selfish and ruthlessly competitive.
Unfortunately without dialogue, interpretation, and reflection, numbers on a scorecard often lead to a distorted picture of performance with too much, too little, or misplaced credit given for achievement.
His work would later take a more abstract turn, shimmering, like jewel boxes, and a little blurred, with a distorted sense of time and place and with mysterious, lonely figures.
And last October, Yorkshire and England's Tim Bresnan was warned about his future conduct after taking offence at a distorted picture posted on the site which exaggerated the girth of his arms and stomach.
Now, thanks to the Target ruling, CAPTCHAs must also offer an audio option--a distorted recording of letters and numbers read aloud that's often far easier for a computer to interpret than a distorted image.
The magnitude of this crisis can range from a distorted, diluted, destructive, and in some cases deranged form of what people inaccurately define as leadership when not held to a clearly articulated, well defined standard.
It reflected not just a distorted picture of a critical episode in American foreign policy but a seeming ignorance of the important lessons that Americans drew from this brief and unhappy experiment in creating an overseas empire.
Dubbed "the portrait of a soul" and "the face that launched 1, 000 therapists, " "The Scream" depicts a distorted human figure -- hands flat against its sunken face, eyes and mouth wide open -- in the foreground of a nightmarish landscape.
In this subterranean level -- literally, as the film market is confined to the basement of the Cannes Palais, a place without natural light but much neon humming -- alongside the buzz of bargaining and budget-crunching, the musketeers of marketing do battle to "acquire" (buy) or "distribute" (sell) "content" (films) in a marketplace distorted by a dollar weaker than a French cup of tea.
We shouldn't blame an entire group of people for the horrible acts of a few people who have distorted a great religion.
The result is that we get a terribly distorted picture of modern life, and of modern childhood in particular.
Well then, no wonder Ben Bernanke has a somewhat distorted view of reality as seen by the vast majority of Americans.
If the loss estimates are too high or too low, you can get a very distorted picture of how the bank is truly performing.
That applies even more to third children: in Ontario, mothers born in India gave birth to 1, 883 sons and 1, 385 daughters, a hugely distorted ratio of 136 to 100.
The investigators are looking into whether the banks effectively formed a cartel and distorted global borrowing costs between 2006 and 2008.
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In a similar sense, when we do cellular research for even -- like for cancer research, for instance, on Earth the cells actually collapse under their own weight and so their growth on Earth are a little bit distorted.
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The autumn's sales figures were distorted by a dip in September after the death of Princess Diana, and a rebound in October.
"She picks out these little things, distorts it and then puts it in as a citation on her distorted attack ads, " Fitzgerald said.
In the 1920s Homo erectus distorted himself a bit, and took to swinging round church towers or chandeliers as the Phantom of the Opera and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
However, these figures are somewhat distorted by a drop in coal shipments, which contributed 44% of total rail shipments last year, as coal demand has been impacted by a switch to natural gas for electric power generation.
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