Sentence examples for pernicious act from inspiring English sources

To advance the color-blind myth, she paraphrased Franklin as saying, "was not simply a delusion; it was a far more pernicious act of bad faith".

This post-hoc cut score change is a pernicious act of assault on schools, students, parents and teachers in New York State.

"Such pernicious acts as the search for understanding with those who go against the law will no longer be able to be promoted as legitimate initiatives under any pretext".

A handy rule of thumb in Washington is that the more pernicious the act, the more high-minded the title.

Greenwald says the underlying premise of the question, that a journalist working with a source to tell a vital story based on sensitive information may be a criminal act, is pernicious to the work of truth-telling and chilling to investigative journalism as an enterprise.

Such a pursuit of happiness is a right, not a privilege subject to the approval of voters -- something that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is addressing right now with hearings to repeal the pernicious "Defense of Marriage Act" designed to obstruct same-sex marriage.

The pernicious amendment to the Migration Act (section 198AHA), after the M68 case was filed in the court, sought to retrospectively validate any prior illegalities and give the department power to take "any action" in relation to regional processing functions.

"There is a pernicious thread that connects the act of violence against a woman wearing a hijab to the assault on a transgender man to the tragic deaths of nine innocent African-Americans during a Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina," she said.

Mr Lamb said: "The legal system in this country acts in a pernicious way and stops claims being aired in court.

Still, the act also had a pernicious effect.

However, there is another pernicious reason for our failure to act: the bitter, often vitriolic campaigns of climate change deniers – men and women (but mostly men) who simply refuse to accept that humanity is changing weather systems.