Sentence examples for be a baleful influence from inspiring English sources

Yes, he can be a baleful influence (currently, as chairman of Fox News, cheerleading for Trump).

"I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children," he argued, adding that it was "snobbery and … foolishness" to suggest that a certain author or particular genre might be a baleful influence upon young reading minds — be it comic books or the works of R. L. Stine.

Showing that Microsoft is a monopoly with a baleful influence over the computer industry is one thing; deciding what to do about it is something else altogether.

Would it be censorship to abolish altogether such a baleful influence?

She is walking a fine line by arguing that money has a baleful influence in politics generally but has left her, personally, unaffected — Clintonian exceptionalism.

Hillary Clinton is walking a fine line by arguing that money has a baleful influence in politics generally but has left her, personally, unaffected.

We show that seed money works well if the threshold is high but with a low threshold it could have a baleful influence.

Indeed, in the matter of erratic decoration they seem to have had a baleful influence.

Johnson has had a baleful influence on postmodern business architecture all over the world.

She has held a baleful influence over education in Mexico, taking advantage of rules which delegate to the union the hiring and promotion of teachers, as well as the payment of their salaries via opaque accounts.

The soundscape is a baleful urban cacophony.