Sentence examples for for pernicious from inspiring English sources

The proliferation of cross-purposes and strange bedfellows makes for pernicious and complicated arbitrating.

A great-uncle, George Richards Minot, was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a treatment for pernicious anemia.

There are mathematical equations in "Gravity's Rainbow," but Pynchon suggests that they are almost always used for pernicious, occult ends; in Don DeLillo's "White Noise," technology creates Airborne Toxic Events and pills that induce delusion.

In 1948, however, almost simultaneously in the United States and Britain, the active principle, cyanocobalamin, was isolated from liver, and this vitamin became the standard treatment for pernicious anemia.

Building on Bernal's unselfish tutelage, Hodgkin's triumphs, the structures she solved, increased in complexity: from cholesterol and vitamin D to penicillin and vitamin B-12, the active principle in liver, cure for pernicious anemia.

It's not hard to see how automation could, in the wrong hands, be appropriated for pernicious ends.

If that video is to blame for a pernicious rumor, it is also to blame for putting her on the map.

The mechanism for this pernicious effect is unclear, and indeed the findings themselves are controversial.

"This is fertile ground for a pernicious negative spiral, which then also affects expectations," Mr Draghi noted in May.

We will be campaigning strongly for this pernicious legislation to be repealed with the advent of a Labour government".

A weak rule on swaps is an "indefensible retreat" from tougher regulation and a "poster child for the pernicious effect of industry's army of lobbyists".