Sentence examples for insidious act from inspiring English sources

The Chinese government has committed either an astute piece of film criticism, an insidious act of cultural terrorism or both.

In casting Geoffrey Rush, he wanted a modern satyr, a dangerous rascal, yet an inescapably attractive figure whose most insidious act is to whisper new ideas in innocent ears.

Joe Lockhart, a senior adviser to Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, issued a statement calling on Mr. Rove and other aides to "come clean about their role in this insidious act".

David G. Strunce, chief executive of Scientific Protein Laboratories, the company that supplied contaminated heparin material to Baxter International, which manufactured and distributed the finished drug, described the contamination as "an insidious act" that "seems to us an intentional act upstream in the supply chain".

Once again, like we saw with the misnomer of Amanda Todd's online sexual extortion being described as cyberbullying, we are seeing the wrong word used to describe an insidious act.

The consumer is more powerful these days, and maybe it's little acts of protest that will force a much-needed re-balancing of the system, and end these insidious acts of exploitation.

"The World Congress on Sexual Exploitation of Children will provide an opportunity to identify what must be done to put an end to insidious acts that violate children's bodies and their rights".

There were heroes (Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, Carrie Underwood) villains to thwart (Simon Cowell, Sanjaya apologist Howard Stern), and the insidious sideshow acts that livened up the audition round.

Ms Gillard said the allegations that had come to light were "heartbreaking", concerning "insidious, evil acts to which no child should be subject".

And this also ignores another insidious fact: the candidates themselves don't act as if Freakonomics is correct.

But the three-man disciplinary panel found it to be "an insidious and petulant act intended to threaten match officials into altering the way they officiated".