Sentence examples for highly pernicious from inspiring English sources

I spend a great deal of my time working with schools, talking about natural selection and fossils and Darwin and celebrating that wonderful branching tree of life of which we are a tiny (but highly pernicious) micro-twig.

Another critical task is the detection of outbreaks that rise up on the order of several days to several weeks and are not part of the systematic patterns in disease counts; the causes are bioterrorism and uncommon highly pernicious diseases.

Concerning the enzymatic constituents of this defense system, SOD functions as the first and rate-limiting step of rapid conversion of superoxide anion (O2−.) to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in order to prevent highly pernicious hydroxyl radicals.

Whatever its causes, a surge in the ratio of wealth to income in the economy can be both highly persistent and pernicious.

Parthenium hysterophorus L. is a highly prolific and pernicious invasive weed species reported in India and several other countries.

There is a pernicious and highly regrettable consequence of spreading so broadly a misunderstanding that the right to a lawyer and silence may depend on citizenship status.

Such a pernicious cycle seems highly likely.

And in attempting to disentangle them, critics are obstructing the ability of the film to strike a colossal and highly public blow against the pernicious Lost Cause.

Prefaced by an appeal to youth to abide by traditional morality rather than modern scientific theory, the novel portrays the pernicious influence of a highly respected positivist philosopher and teacher (who strongly resembles Taine) on a young man.

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

Shaftesbury was highly critical of what he took to be the pernicious moral influence of certain Christian sects (such as Calvinism and other kinds of Puritanism) that emphasized the depravity of human nature and the jealousy of God.