Sentence examples for have pernicious from inspiring English sources

Peter Neufeld, a director of the project, said Thursday's decision would have pernicious consequences.

Certain insults to the developing brain, like smoking and drinking by pregnant mothers, have pernicious effects on behavior.

"It is intolerable for the judicial system to treat people this way," he said, adding that he feared the decision would have pernicious consequences.

"The book is going to have pernicious real-world effects," said Mr. Leiter, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, who has frequently chided Mr. Nagel on his widely read blog.

The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said Wednesday's decision could have pernicious consequences, by, for instance, barring suits from pastors who are sexually harassed.

And if, as futures markets suggest, house prices have further to fall, that credit crunch will only get worse.A downturn centred on housing will have pernicious effects, even on the regions it hits least.

Yet, highly aggressive enforcement does little additional good and has pernicious side-effects.

The growing political and economic power of the landowners had pernicious effects on the lot of the peasantry.

Asking all taxpayers to fund what only some consume has pernicious effects: it drives up demand for higher education even when prices become eye-watering.

Persons who have a low serum vitamin B12 level and who are suspected of having pernicious anemia usually are required to undergo the Schilling test.

The fusion of their political and commercial interests in the upper reaches of power has had pernicious results.An early test will be whether Mr Putin replaces the most spectacularly incompetent and greedy figures, and with whom.