Sentence examples for malignant influences from inspiring English sources

Until the end of the 20th century, administrative reforms generally strengthened the meritocratic and universalistic bases of administrative organization to guard against the malignant influences of corruption, a lack of accountability, and patronage.

All but swooning over the wonderfulness of himself, the reverend acts like he is the first person to come up with the idea that blacks too often get the short end of the stick in America, that the malignant influences of slavery and the long dark night of racial discrimination are still being felt today, that in many ways this is a profoundly inequitable society.

The imperative is to find ways to counteract and diminish his malignant influence not only in the overtly political realm but also in the social and cultural one.

Shrill and juvenile, there's little in this dollop of ecstatic pop to differentiate Silkborg's Alphabeat from the likes of S Club 7, except that, unbelievably, music like this exists without the malignant influence of Simon Fuller.

But there are also powerful figures in the Afghan establishment who exercise a malignant influence, a group of strongmen wielding enormous influence.

When he speaks of the squirearchy and the cloth exerting their "malignant" influence even in ancient Rome, it is Mommsen the liberal politician speaking.

It also works brilliantly as the soundtrack of the first and best installment of Godfrey Reggio's film trilogy about humanity's mostly malignant influence on the earth, its alternately lyrical and vigorous movements accompanying visions of everything from the grandeur of Southwestern deserts and cloud formations to urban crowds in slow motion and sped-up film of highway traffic.

To Greek observers, this signified certain emanations which caused its malignant influence.

Exasperated by these acts, Warwick decided the Woodvilles were a malignant influence on his liege.

Sen. Barry Goldwater, fuming over the rise of the religious right and its malignant influence over the Republican Party, famously said, "Every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass," referring to then Moral Majority leader, Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Maybe that you should support forces with the will and effectiveness to change things, whatever their ideology, to sweep away contemptible dictators and America's malignant influence on the region.