The tortuous distinctions thus produced are specious, at best: at worst, they are pernicious to our constitutional heritage.
Photocatalysts for pollutant degradation have been extensively investigated but extremely challenging for practical applications, because the radicals formed on the catalyst surface are pernicious to organisms in the nature.
Greenwald says the underlying premise of the question, that a journalist working with a source to tell a vital story based on sensitive information may be a criminal act, is pernicious to the work of truth-telling and chilling to investigative journalism as an enterprise.
Or Apple and the others fail again to take action on these problems, which are pernicious to solve, easy to pass on to others, and have the agreeable side effect of reducing manufacturing costs?
Listen: I'm not one of those people who thinks that song lyrics are poetry (the conflation is pernicious to both traditions, excusing lazy readers who get their "poetry" via Spotify, while at the same time devaluing the role of actual, you know, music in music), but that's not to say that lyrics can't be poetic or a poet's lines musical.
History has demonstrated that, for centuries, women and men have been using various methods of contraception, some of which were pernicious to women's overall health, to prevent pregnancy and control their fertility[ 1].
Mental phenomena, such as suicidal impulses or unconsummated ideations can also be included, as well as a wide range of behaviours which are pernicious to the patient's health without a previous explicit declaration of a suicidal intention [ 6, 7].
His work may feature SF's faster-than-light travel and sentient tattoos, but he rejects its appetite for heroes, which he considers to be "pernicious … a lie about the way the universe is constructed".
What is also becoming clear is that, given the right dreadful circumstances, it could be pernicious enough to kill.
"[Discrimination] doesn't have to be systematic to be pernicious.
This was, after all, a man who devoted his life to combatting what he considered to be pernicious forms of nonsense.
