1.   The routine checks distort the data to some extent but because checks were performed both before and after raditherapy the bias is minimised.

2.   Indeed, the explanation proposed by Givon actually leads him to distort the data in English to fit the universally attested semantic properties used as tools of analysis.

3.   Before the problem can be solved, executives need to understand how their actions and policies can distort the data.

4.   But analysts said the data were distorted by the way insurance claims were recorded.

5.   In an interview, Ehrenberg said he was not concerned that the company would distort the data because he randomly checked them and analyzed the results himself.

6.   In some of the classic conflicts of the past, the historian said, disagreement persisted because scientists failed to recognize statistical errors or background effects distorting the data.

7.   Teicher says his contact with the Scientologists was limited to one phone call in which he complained they were distorting his data.

8.   The hostile polar environment reaches even into the warmest nooks of this sprawling station to wreck computers, distort data and complicate the pursuit of knowledge.

9.   The terrorist attacks may well have affected or partially distorted the data on hours worked, economists said.