Sentence examples for a pernicious role from inspiring English sources

First, state-level politics can play a pernicious role.

The "religious right" has long played a pernicious role in US politics.

One element has been missing, and that is the west's relationship with Middle Eastern dictatorships that have played a pernicious role in the rise of Islamist fundamentalist terrorism.

She recalled the moving stories Justice Marshall would tell to support his view that racism played a pernicious role in the administration of capital punishment.

The gold standard would have played a pernicious role no matter what, but France's behaviour made the dynamic Mr Krugman describes much worse than it should have been.

The view that Choudary played a pernicious role in funneling people towards terrorism has remarkable levels of agreement across the political and religious spectrum.

No foodPolitics has had a particularly pernicious role in Zimbabwe, which has stopped being a net grain exporter and is desperately hungry.

She was such a pernicious character.

Simple carbohydrates appear to play a much more pernicious role.

Over recent years, our work on the E. coli genome has led us to an appreciation of the pernicious role that gene fusions often play as troublemakers in function assignments and in relating groups of sequence similar proteins [ 9].

Oh, sure, this could lead to a prolonged discussion about the pernicious role of money within our political system.