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The point system creates perverse incentives to design around the checklist rather than to build the greenest building possible.

The Fall of mankind is a myth at once recounting the perverse nature of men and attaching to them the responsibility.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Not only could it raise up to $250 billion a year but it would also fix some perverse incentives.

It was the perverse nature of the world monetary system that allowed it to happen in the way it did.

A propensity to be saucy was one; and a perverse will, that indulged children invariably acquire, whether they be good-tempered or cross.

The attitude of the invalid toward the cattleman was something like that of a peevish, perverse child toward an indulgent parent.

The savage sun beat down like a drum, and a perverse part of me thought that it was a wonderful day to decay.

In its fervor and obsession, this attitude is similar to that of a perverse religious cult .

"In a very perverse way, this attack may be the best testimony of all that human intelligence has improved, " said the former official.

Zhang's actions seem to spring not, like Visser's, from perverse, greedy corruption, but rather from adherence to a deep, unspoken code.

At least part of this is due to a banking system failure that banks were encouraged to court by perverse incentives and implicit subsidies.

For Japan, a swift restructuring under special legislation is better than a bail-out of bondholders that perpetuates perverse incentives.

With the Church unable to resist the sexual revolution, efforts to prevent contraception were seen as likely to have perverse consequences.

A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will resist it.

A type of unintended consequences, perverse incentives are the result of an honest good intention.

A man of perverse heart does not prosper; he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.

And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.

Perverse impulses seem to arise when people focus intensely on avoiding specific errors or taboos.

Low prices are one of the fruits of competition: penalising business giants for price cuts would be perverse.

Meanwhile, it seems perverse that US regulators in particular are happy to see banks grow bigger, so long as they don't buy bulk.

And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

however tough such a demand sounds , it changes the psychological balance in a perverse way.

Trying to build when every other bank is trying to dismantle looks perverse.

But history has shown that ruling Russia has a way of working its own perverse logic on the egos of its rulers.

Or so the young do not know if we have never thought, when our lives perverse, we will use what the vision to look at the world?

Building huge air-capture plants to reabsorb the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels would be a perverse outcome.

BP operates in one of the most regulated industries on earth with some of the most perverse rules, subsidies and incentives.

Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you?

with these perverse and psychotic people, do you think you have a simliar sort of mind so you can understand them better?

These perverse incentives mean that governments can frequently spend lots of money without producing any improvement in public services.

In the downdraft from a commodity sell-off, the dollar would be the perverse winner.

At a time of economic frailty, that seems perverse.

On the face of things, this is a perverse conclusion to draw after one of the worst drubbings suffered by the Democrats in many years.

Economists might call the taking of a life to reap a tax advantage a 'perverse incentive. ' District attorneys might call it homicide.

Some of the salaries and bonuses we have seen created perverse incentives to take reckless risks that contributed to the crisis.

The perverse acts of Taiwan separatist forces are resolutely opposed by compatriots across the Straits and all Chinese people.

But it seems perverse to treat the failure of financial rules as an excuse to reduce rather than tighten regulation.

At first blush this seems perverse and cruel. But then I got to thinking.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

That standard is a new breed of sanctified Christians, who will shine forth as lights in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation.

This perverse dynamic argues for a restructuring of insolvent countries' debts sooner rather than later.

Economists have been worrying about the perverse incentives created by economic mismatches within the EU for decades.

These elections should demonstrate that that perception is perverse, and that the checks and balances in the US system still work.

That political philosophy took this direction was of course no accident, no chance preference or perverse whim of political philosophers.

By this seemingly perverse logic, the two consecutive months of falling payrolls to start this year might actually be positive for equities.

This is a complex and perverse system which needs to be phased out; but such a phase-out will need to be paid for.

If we don't have free will, a perverse kind of anarchism emerges, one which seems to encourage us to act any way we choose.

Even if perverse consequences of this type look improbable, a junk-food tax may have less impact than its advocates expect.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

I'm well aware that this is a perverse way to act like a political journalist and cover Washington.

"There is the capacity to get a very perverse outcome, " said Sean Cadman, a spokesman for the Wilderness Society of Australia.

Mary Mary quite contrary; an obstinate child with a violent temper; a perverse mood; wayward behavior.

It seems perverse not to, but the causes are a potent mix of hubris, greed and technical complications.

But the novelty of air-con in developing Asia has stoked a perverse desire to fight the natural climate.

In fact, the whole film, like the original, is a perverse homage to appalling behaviour.

Men of perverse heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with evil.

Being perverse at heart, I used an already-installed embedded system with a USB CF drive, but it really doesn't make any difference.

Christians have blood on their hands too, and have had some very perverse practices in their history.

They say its impact could be "perverse" if it makes countries use bigger bombs and more of them.

Currently the financial markets are viewing economic data in a perverse way as weak data are viewed as positive for risky assets.

Let's take a closer look. Were there any mistakes or perverse policy patterns during the Greenspan era?

A perverse effect of the quota, therefore, says Mr Gomez, may be to reduce rather than increase board diversity.

All three books expect more regulation of the financial system, which will inevitably have perverse consequences.

Then there were performance targets: lots of them too, but they were often resented and sometimes had perverse side-effects.

In a perverse way, every increase in the RRR is an incentive to load up on real estate.

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth and typically results in unintended, perverse consequences.

We would like to request the help of the American peoples in ending this perverse threat to humanity and the planet.

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom , but a perverse tongue will be cut out .

In his perverse wisdom, Satan has produced in this electronic age an unbelievable array of exotic temptations.

Thus, a weakening of the economy might act indirectly to increase the pace of passive policy tightening--a perverse outcome.

For the perverse man is an abomination to Jehovah, But His intimate counsel is with the upright.

Banks are odd creatures; there is no sign that external monitoring has produced the same perverse results for other companies.

A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.

Joel Klein, the man in charge of public schools in New York City, lists other perverse incentives.

Although the Titanic enterprise ended in disaster, Belfast retains a perverse pride in its most famous ship.

It would be perverse to ignore market signals when finance is increasingly based on broad capital markets .

In a perverse sort of way, we can stay secure in the life we currently have, and insist that we tried changing, but it just didn't work out.

Thompson was disgusted with a boy, Ted, who sat in the first row. She noticed that the boy was too perverse to get on well with others.

As China's clout grows, it seems almost perverse that the US would embed itself more deeply into the region.

Put away from you crooked speech , And put perverse talk far from you .

For Lucy, it's not naivety; she has a perverse fascination, allowing herself to be exploited and seeing how far she can push that.

It may seem a perverse decision for a self-declared modernist.

Gorbachev's reforms either were ignored or they were enacted with perverse consequences.

Thus she passed from generation to generation-dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.

Against this background the decision to scrap the whole lot seems perverse, although its demonstrated value might lead to a rethink.

Mr. Moss and his colleagues want to know if huge gaps in income create perverse incentives that put the financial system at risk.

But even some senior Chinese bankers have recently criticised the perverse incentives this strict control creates.

Third, 'perverse incentives' encourage deforestation in Brazil.

The shaggy-dog tale that I ended up with is weird and perverse, but the writing experience was astonishingly fun.

The same perverse logic applies in Europe and the United States.

Furthermore, oil is perverse. When prices are low, oil-rich countries welcome the low-cost, high-tech and well- capitalised oil firms.

As with many bilateral conflicts between the US and China, perverse ironies abound.

Though I had carefully explained the shorter route to him, the perverse youngster came by the longer way.

Creditor nations are havens for capital in a downturn, with some perverse consequences.

All of this is occurring against a backdrop of a sinking bond yields which makes matter all the more perverse.

Government action certainly makes a difference, though sometimes results are perverse.

This perverse state of affairs arises because people outside of China are keen to accept yuan as payment, believing it will appreciate.

A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable effect which is opposite to the initial interests.

Though I had care fully explained the shorter route to him, the perverse youngster came by the longer way.

"The healthy tendency is insufficient" and external "the perverse trend detention" with in vivo concerns.

Since the spies say Iran stopped its bomb-making in 2003 because of world pressure, relaxing it now would be perverse.

It would be perverse to refuse to support this idea.

Your music will take on different characteristics: playful, sad, perverse, pure, or whatever.

Were inflation to outstrip wage growth, it could have the perverse effect of shrinking demand.

The Electoral Reform Society, a pressure group, points out that AV can produce results as perverse as first-past-the-post.

While that was technically correct, they distributed it in a perverse way.

They are threatening to steal Carter's perverse sense of pride.

A related worry is that of perverse incentives.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

It would be perverse to forget that lesson now.

Burton was a deep and perverse sympathizer with Arab society.

One criticism of the CDM is that it creates perverse incentives for bad behaviour, whose cessation is then presented as "saving" carbon.

The system is awash with perverse incentives.

Most pernicious, though, is the perverse logic of the euro zone's rescue mechanisms.

To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.

These perverse incentives are addressed, faintly, by Obamacare.

Medics are perverse, self-thwarting creatures who dothemselves out of a job by curing patients who then no longer need them.

The perverse result: Over time, the Anshan deal will destroy far more American jobs than the 120 it supposedly will create.

a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting.

This evening Paul had been moody and perverse .

Programmers take a perverse pleasure from sharing death-march warstories.

There's this perverse satisfaction she gets by messing with things and, in turn, observing things being messed with.

This is the perverse outcome of the country's longstanding preference for sons, and its sudden modernisation.

"If we seek immortality, " Mukherjee writes, "then so, too, in a rather perverse sense, does the cancer cell. "

The present situation in banking is in many respects perverse.

To pose oneself the question of feminine jouissance, well then, this is already to open the door of all perverse acts.

It's the perverse and knowing world of the photographers Helmut Newton and Robert Mapplethorpe.

She gets a perverse satisfaction from making other people embarrassed.

The most perverse impact of the mid-terms is the sudden interest in immigration.

Maybe that's perverse, but I quite often feel like that guy.

This will have perverse effects on Ford and other companies that find it difficult to compete against a free-spending Treasury.

China's power plants faced perverse incentives: the more they produced, the more money they lost.

In such circumstances, aggressive monetary policy may have weak, even perverse, effects on the real economy.

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

There's something perverse about women. . . they're all masochists at heart.

Singer enjoys the perverse glamour of living in a hotel.

If they were more provident and less perverse, ma'am, what would they do?

Meaning of Taking an Oath Existing as a "Perverse Norm"

America's health-care system is a nightmare of perverse incentives.

Not all counter drug policies are futile or perverse in their outcomes.

Clearly something is ridiculous and perverse, but it's not porn.

O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.

Then there could be perverse trading effects.

The enlarged EU has moved in a perverse direction.

And universities themselves use rankings in many ways, some positive and some perverse.

Governments, such as China's, that link financial reimbursement to the amount of drugs dispensed must abolish that perverse practice.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.

Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse.

German lender succumbs to perverse incentives. Who's next?

But a perverse mind is despised.

I get a perverse satisfaction from purging useless stuff and having everything be smaller, neater, and in order. And it doesn't take long.

Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse.

We might even take a perverse thrill in it.

It is a perverse and ridiculous intrusion into your relationship.

Many people are plagued with great shame and remorse when it comes to fantasies, especially the ones they see as "perverse. "

To doubt the resilience of the world economy must now look perverse.

There could be perverse results, too.

The perverse acts of the reactionaries taught the people by negative example.

But such orders can lead to perverse results, especially in volatile periods like last week.

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

The increased regulation itself may have some perverse consequences.

A thoroughly rigged poll can bring a perverse outcome.

This kind of reasoning is deeply perverse.

With each passing day, the decision to multiply Rio's debt almost 20-fold to buy Alcan in a negligible-synergy takeover looks more perverse.

Wisdom hates pride and arrogance , evil be haviore and perverse speech .

This seems perverse: watches fit easily and buyers are usually collectors who know the models well.

There is a perverse comfort many get from displays of blatant racial injustice.

You are being unnecessarily perverse.

If the people and the newspaper seem mad, perverse, and wicked, remind yourself that you seem so to them.

But whoever follows perverse ways will be found out.

If the "1001 Books" program seems quirky, even perverse, it's no accident.

And to the second grade, the spring tree suddenly broke, behavior, beauty jiada had a perverse.

On April 4th the government published proposals intended to rid the pensions system of this perverse incentive.

But, as my UCL colleague John Adams observed, innovations can have a perverse effect.

To deliver you from the way of evil , From the man who speaks perverse things.

Maybe this is Blair's idea of a perverse double date.

Commenting on Genesis 9: 6, John Calvin reminded us that we cannot hate even our most perverse enemies, because of the image of God in them.

There are clearly still tensions between the two: Mr Richards takes a perverse delight in mocking Sir Mick's "tiny todger" , for example.

Never did a perverse nature declare itself more prematurely, and yet it was not owing to any fault in his bringing up

I am irritated that he is so perverse.

And it is a perverse measure.

And the result is this. This is why men have, in appearance at least, the privilege of the great perverse positions.

IC: I know that's perverse , but I do.

But if that is our goal, the Senate bill, and a House version that passed 412 to 12, seem almost diabolically perverse.

This has created perverse and often baffling incentives, given Hong Kong and Macao's close economic integration with mainland China.

It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, in some perverse mood;

One of the reasons is the bureaucracy's perverse incentive system;

The Literary Perverse Subsistence--Try Analyzing the Literary Trend of the Consumption Society

Under the perverse influence of Sanjay Gandhi, Indira Gandhi (the then Prime Minister) had formulated a population policy as follows:

they are just getting some perverse joy out of testing me

Revolt Despair: One Perverse Subject of Aesthetics in Xu'xu's Drama

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;

Both of us were perverse and stubborn, and not willing to compromise with each other

Since it is perverse and counter-intuitive, they may find it very appealing

What is perverse is what perverts the order of the terms;

us publicity, we are perverse, just because we want to express the most true to yourself;

I like people to be confident in that way, and also because, for some perverse reason,