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This non-independence of RI lines will distort genetic maps.
The private nature of the speech involved here, and the extent of LSC's regulation of private expression, are indicated further by the circumstance that the Government seeks to use an existing medium of expression and to control it, in a class of cases, in ways which distort its usual functioning.
(It's important, however pedantic it may sound, to keep stressing that only "some" or "a few" partook of such vengeance, since even choosing to discuss these acts--and not the vastly more extensive crimes that preceded them--threatens to distort history.)
Nor will the judicial opinions produced by LSC cases systematically distort the interpretation of welfare laws.
Schoenfeld is shrill and dismissive, with a tendency to distort others' words for his own convenience.