Sentence examples for baleful use from inspiring English sources

When the Germans occupied the city in 1939, Nazi officers, with their unerring instinct for such things, seized the huge home, and made baleful use of it until the end of the war.

Of course, too, as I said at the outset, bad governance has played a baleful role in exacerbating the challenges.

The agency often issues bellicose threats against South Korea and the United States, employing a vivid vocabulary that resembles the propaganda broadsides and baleful slogans used by the former Soviet Union.

WORKLESS children were "idling in the streets" and "tumbling about in the gutters", wrote one observer in 1861 of the supposedly baleful effects of a reduction in the use of child labour.

This brings us to "the baleful influence of clerk drafting," to quot Edward Lazarus in his recent book, Closed Chambers.

Nissan and its allies have tried to use Detroit's hardships as a baleful warning against organizing.

The baleful Alexi Lalas also has a supporting role somewhere.

Inside the country, however, the role of the KGB was baleful.

One of Bill Clinton's baleful final acts was to declare large swatches of national lands off-limits to commercial use.

Watch this baleful space.

She sings with passionate volatility, using tiny quavers and sudden outbursts that make each song a scalloped series of emotional peaks: tearful, determined, baleful.