Sentence examples for considered pernicious from inspiring English sources

"If iTunes started three years earlier, I'm not sure how big Napster and the subsequent piratical environments would have been, because people would have been in the habit of legitimately purchasing at pricing that wasn't considered pernicious," said Richard Sarnoff, a chairman of Bertelsmann, which owns Random House, the world's largest publisher of consumer titles.

The complaint against Citigroup alleges conduct that could be considered more pernicious than the charges against Goldman.

But he adds that it is rap music's virulently antipolice rhetoric that is considered particularly pernicious.

At the same time, a crackdown on social security fraud — a problem considered as pernicious as the country's widespread tax evasion — has seen some results.

I hope that we will begin to consider the pernicious effects of our unwise eating habits for the sake of our humanity, our ecology and our health.

This was, after all, a man who devoted his life to combatting what he considered to be pernicious forms of nonsense.

They also reduce the abundance in the hedge-bottom of Anisantha sterilis, Galium aparine, Poa trivialis and Urtica dioica, all four considered to be pernicious weed species.

Psychiatric confinement of sane people is uniformly considered a particularly pernicious form of repression and Soviet punitive psychiatry was one of the key weapons of both illegal and legal repression.

That, of course, was before January 2006, when he chose to go public on what he considered to be the pernicious financial influence of agents within the game, and followed up by criticising the regime running his then club, Luton Town, so explicitly as to make his sacking inevitable.

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".

This is particularly worrisome considering the uniquely pernicious effects of budget cuts on scientific research.