Sentence examples for become pernicious from inspiring English sources
Supporting Rush are those concerned that rights-of-publicity statutes have become pernicious, growing far beyond their intended purpose.
"It really becomes pernicious because the uncertainty increases, corporate confidence is badly battered, and you get these severe measures being taken".
On the other he attempts to establish that close connection became pernicious collusion, contending that "the secret relationship between these two great families helped trigger the Age of Terror and give rise to the tragedy of 9/11".
You know, if you take a blowdryer and use it in the bathtub, it's not being used properly, and it then becomes pernicious".
BP said early August was still the target time for killing the well -- the technical term for sealing what has become a pernicious adversary -- when the two relief wells are completed.
They got the "O" off at the right time in the pre-recorded rendition of the National Anthem (well, close enough), and even graced their team with the chanted bass line from the White Stripes Seven Nation Armyy, which has become a pernicious team anthem.
[snip] You can say that AIPAC was misguided, that it's even become a pernicious force, but you can't deny that it got its strategic premises ordered properly.
Watchdog groups monitoring academic speech have become more pernicious in the last two decades.
But it's only recently that the same strength, which helped make him a centripetal cultural force, has become truly pernicious.
In that case, the concept of American Exceptionalism first articulated by Winthrop, employed with great political effect by Ronald Reagan, and now endorsed by Sarah Palin, is simply nonsense - a fairy tale that may once have had a certain utility, but that in our own day has become simply pernicious.
