Sentence examples for Pernicious selection from inspiring English sources
When the time came for one of the pernicious selection processes that British education goes in for, I was judged to be too dopey to be allowed to do Greek.
He described a pernicious selection of students into a hierarchical arrangement of schools and a need for a broad cultural shift that would measure the value of a school intrinsically rather than in comparison to other schools.
The enmity between Susan and Todd, and later between their daughters, Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Millicent Todd Bingham (each of whom edited selections of Dickinson's work), had a pernicious effect on the presentation of Emily Dickinson's work.
"Their collaborative discovery has spawned a multitude of treatments and diagnostic therapies for some of mankind's most pernicious diseases," said James J. Barba, chief executive of the Albany Medical Center, who was the chairman of the selection committee.
Sex selection is arguably a kind of gender discrimination and could heighten problems of pernicious gender discrimination.
Dr. Sandage has also argued that in many recent experiments using Cepheids and other targets, the selection of only the brightest known objects in the class being examined introduced a bias that had a "pernicious effect" on the results.
You have pernicious anemia.
It's a pernicious relationship".
