Sentence examples for but pernicious from inspiring English sources

But pernicious forces were at work.

But "pernicious" business rates, as the CBI calls them, cannot be blamed entirely for the fall in business investment.

Rieff thinks describing morality and authority in a neutral, sociological way is not just wrong but pernicious.

Historically there is little evidence to support this increasingly popular, but pernicious, theory that the people may want to believe in the Pres.

If so, insisting that Manning, who is willing to face the consequences of what he did, also validate a distorted view of what secrecy means is not only excessive but pernicious.

The growing popularity of writers such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and AC Grayling, who argue that religion is not just irrelevant but pernicious, is a key difference between the Britain that Benedict will find when he visits and the altogether more respectful one John Paul II experienced 28 years ago.

Belief in God is not only a delusion, he argues, but a "pernicious" one.

But the pernicious effects of insensitive, over-centralised rules are everywhere to be seen in Japan, especially on the environment.

And, given the Fed's influence over global monetary conditions, it could clobber growth elsewhere too.A more subtle, but still pernicious, risk is complacency.

He may have been stupid but not pernicious," Steinhardt said, recalling that Greenspan, in the late sixties, as a consultant, used to make presentations to his firm.

Standard Life, an insurer that revealed it was making plans to shift to England in the event of independence, received similar treatment.Another possible explanation is subtler, but more pernicious.