Sentence examples for more pernicious forms from inspiring English sources

But I still maintain that much of the rhetoric has not been helpful and that in order to make progress we have to look more at the best that religion has to offer, not the worst, and find common ground with more liberal believers in order to counter the more pernicious forms of belief.

Margery Austin Turner, a senior vice president at the Urban Institute, the research group that conducted the study, said that buyers and renters with poor credit or other blemishes on their financial records had experienced more pernicious forms of discrimination than the well-qualified customers in the study.

Perhaps one of the more pernicious forms of ideology now is embodied in the appeal of the claim that there are no alternatives to present institutions.

However, there is a more pernicious form of jargon and it is this that Neary has quite rightly highlighted.

(Should blacks be accorded more lenient treatment after years of inequity, or is that a more pernicious form of racism, damaging to both blacks and the law?) And there's the vexing question of how we temper the either-or edicts of criminal law with a more nuanced appreciation of the enormous (but incalculable) influence of environment and genes.

Bans and rules anyway have a habit of attracting a more pernicious sort of price signal, corruption.

The danger comes if we are just patting ourselves on our backs as a means of self-congratulation, flaunting our credentials as decent human beings and failing to tackle the more subtle, pernicious forms of racism that scar our society.

Even worse, in a way I'd been eager to deny, I sensed that the anti-Americanism around me wasn't the reasoned, rational position that many of its adherents made it out to be, but something a bit more pernicious: a form of bigotry intended to humiliate and wound rather than to win over hearts and minds.

Yet is this any more pernicious than the grade inflation so rampant in society?

Chronic homelessness is the more "long-term, pernicious" form of the issue, Brian Sullivan, HUD public affairs specialist, explained to the Huffington Post in November.

That's the more "long-term pernicious" form of the issue, when people are habitually without shelter, Brian Sullivan, HUD public affairs specialist, told The Huffington Post.