Sentence examples for a pernicious practice from inspiring English sources

The bodies of community elders have been called "undemocratic" by the government, and the report labels them a "pernicious practice".

This would legalize a pernicious practice that has recently been used against the artist Ai Weiwei, the lawyer Gao Zhisheng and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.

At least it was not a secret hold, a pernicious practice that allows senators to block a nominee without revealing who they are or why they are doing it.

"I can tell you for free that this whole deal this morning was as much about distraction as it is about discovery of a pernicious practice by Google," he said.

In a conference call, Hina Shamsi, the director of the A.C.L.U.'s National Security Project, said the documents showed that the loosened rules had led to an "extremely pernicious" practice of ascribing propensity to crimes to people based on their ethnicity or religion.

A new offence was needed to "punish this pernicious practice" and provide "an important means of redress for victims of this cruel behaviour", he said.

At its worst, it is a form of astroturfing, the pernicious practice of trying to trick people into thinking that has widespread support from ordinary members of the public.

"The lawsuit is aimed at stopping a pernicious police practice, which is harming thousands of New Yorkers a year and clogging up the court system with one out of seven criminal cases and diverting resources and attention from more serious criminal matters".

The history of immigrants is, to a huge extent, the history of this nation, though so is the pernicious practice of determining that some among us do not deserve full humanity, and full citizenship.

Seriously, this pernicious practice is, we fear, on the increase.

Paying women less than their male counterparts for a job of equal value has been illegal since the 1970s but that hasn't deterred the pernicious practice.