Sentence examples for because of a pernicious from inspiring English sources

He had abandoned his homeland because of a pernicious system, but now that the system had been overthrown he would return.

Mr Justice Keith said: "Because of a pernicious and dangerous cocktail of poor communications and shoddy work practices, prison staff never got to grips with him".

It's more of a pernicious effect because it's this erosion," says David Moore, senior director for government relations at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. NIH institutes, which will equally share the 5% sequestration cut, are expected to release their detailed plans for how to make cuts in the next couple of weeks.

They toss aside their commitment to judicial self-restraint and the rule of law because they want to seize the opportunity to use the courts to get rid of a pernicious system that our elected officials endorse, however unwisely.

Tackling what's left of a pernicious and costly edifice, then, seems like a no-brainer.

Old story lines and conversations that rattle around inside of us are a pernicious clutter because of their toxicity.

In its special edition for the opening day of the fair, The Art Newspaper asked whether "the art world is facing a crisis of values" because of the "pernicious influence of the market on art".

But this and several other high-profile cases of misconduct resonated in the scientific community because of a much broader, more pernicious problem: too often, experimental results can't be reproduced.

His separation of "essentialism" in a pernicious sense from the still-common use of "typology" is a welcome clarification.

In its place, he substituted a universal, necessary, and absolute metaphysics of right — albeit in a transcendental vein — precisely of the sort that the 'modern' natural law theory of Hobbes and Pufendorf had originally sought to displace because of its pernicious social consequences.

Christians in particular frequently refused to interfere or protest, sometimes because they were afraid or indifferent, but often because of the pernicious anti-Semitism bred in them by the Church's centuries-old slander that Jews were Christ-killers.