1.   Although far more men abuse and kill women than vice versa, media tend to muddy the issue by downplaying or distorting the issue.

2.   Chalanset, the lawyer for Mr. Perruche, said the issue had been distorted in the public debate.

3.   Despite the numbers, Texas AFL-CIO spokesman Ed Sills says Bush is distorting the issue.

4.   Goss said the Republicans are purposely withholding the nitty-gritty of the plan until the last moment so Democrats cannot distort the issue.

5.   He spoke of prohibiting preferential treatment, the way affirmative action foes always do to distort the issue.

6.   In the last few days, the big-store issue has become distorted by politics.

7.   Opponents say the issue is being distorted by people on both sides of the political aisle.

8.   Opponents, deliberately or through ignorance, successfully distorted the issues involved beyond all recognition of the facts.

9.   She is particularly angry over a series of newspaper ads run by US West that she says distort the issues over which the workers are striking.

10.   The city is distorting the issue, they say.