"Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English, " he said.
This is really perverse for a software company.
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Some agricultural experts also argue that the outside world's relentless focus on developing agricultural exports is perverse in a country that has long been a net food importer and whose people suffer from widespread nutrition deficiencies.
It turns out the gratuitously missing links are a perverse effect of the quiet period, a securities regulation under which the company cannot comment publicly on the offering.
But creating a financial competition for hardest hit provides a perverse incentive for kids to hurt, rather than to merely make a play.
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This will reduce pressure on schools to improve their performance, create a perverse incentive for parents to send their children to run-of-the-mill schools to secure a university place, and guarantee that many poorly prepared students will have a miserable time at university.
South Koreans feel a loss of economic steam, and one perverse outgrowth may be a new hostility to outside capital.
No not, in some perverse manner, a method of bailing out the banks from their mistakes.
It makes a perverse sense: Why not get out and be done with the market?
It takes a perverse blindness to propose more trade in the face of these statistics.
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But perhaps there was a perverse motivation, maybe subconscious, which brought Lance from hibernation.
Writers of the era expressed their frustration with the car but also a perverse affection for it.
There is a perverse economic logic in the mentally ill ending up in prison, rather than hospitals.
Some retailers are finding that deep price cutting may have a perverse effect, according to Mr Silverstein.
When it comes, there will be a perverse rainbow coalition of yesterdays men and women arguing against the euro.
It seems perverse, at a time of stringent austerity, for countries to deny themselves a means of controlling spending.
Competition for contracts between rival exam boards, which created a perverse incentive for some to offer easier options, will go.
"Almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that, " Kay said.
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This creates a perverse incentive for governments to adopt uncompetitive tax rates that would be bad for everyone but tax collectors.
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For a man with vital arguments to win in Downing Street, he has taken a perverse delight in refusing to conform.
And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that.
And in a perverse way, they can actually justify this claim of correctness because of all the mixed signals ricocheting around the discussion.
College fees and student loan debt have a perverse symbiotic relationship.
Mr Osborne said the UK already had the toughest regime in Europe for bankers' pay and bonuses and that a cap could "have a perverse effect".
In a perverse kind of symbiosis, the cascade of disease and medical complications growing out of America's excesses and lack of fitness triggers more demand for more drugs.
Indeed, one of the perverse charms of a VAT is that the levy is imposed at every stage of production and only upon the value added at that stage.
In contrast, the religious left is at least consistent, albeit in a perverse manner, especially when it concedes openly that its case for the welfare state rests on Scripture.
But eminent domain proceedings are particularly troubling in this case because Columbia, as the biggest landholder in Manhattanville, has a perverse incentive to keep its own properties run down and underused.
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