Sentence examples for insidious development from inspiring English sources

The most insidious development in this process was what he called l'avant-garde pompier, phony avant-gardism.

The insidious development of biofilms at stagnant areas such as pipe joints and wall roughness requires periodic disinfection of pumps and piping circuitry.

But Dr. Gallagher said that the apparent diminishing of high school sexual activity masks a more insidious development: some older teenagers may be extending their years of virginity, but some younger teenagers are having sex earlier.

Khan, who became the first Muslim cabinet minister in Gordon Brown's government in 2009, warned of an "insidious" development if people thought it was right to treat women differently to men.

The creep of secrecy and the suppression of information that can be withheld from defendants or respondents in terrorism cases is an insidious development and is another erosion of traditional rights.

Yet fewer have considered perhaps the subtlest and most insidious development of all, as expressed to the National Post by political scientist David Moscrop: "It makes the central lens of asylum seekers a security lens and not a humanitarian lens.

In one of the more insidious developments, signs invoking Arizona native Cesar Chavez's "Si Se Puede" slogan on behalf of Cortes are now posted across the district.

In her 1991 book, "The Beauty Myth," Naomi Wolf argued against the idea — flourishing today — that older female workers "need" plastic surgery to stay employed: "We can better understand how insidious this development is if we try to imagine a racial discrimination suit brought in the face of a powerful technology that processes, with great pain, nonwhite people to look more white.

The novel also illustrates the insidious consequences of "development".

(ICD code F20.4) Simple schizophrenia: Insidious and progressive development of prominent negative symptoms with no history of psychotic episodes.

Given the insidious nature of dementia development [ 11, 12], it cannot be ruled out that the associations identified in the present study are results of reverse causality (i.e. were early changes due to dementia impacts mental distress), even with a follow-up of between 11 and 27 years.