Sentence examples for pernicious activity from inspiring English sources

I don't think billing hours leads to the pernicious activity that some people say they do".

The most pernicious activity so far proven is illicit funding of a staff volleyball team.

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Announcing the arrest of a group of mid-level Wall Street brokers, Bharara said, with some hyperbole, that the case was "precisely the type of pervasive and pernicious activity that causes average people to think that they would be better off pulling their money out of Wall Street and stuffing it in a mattress".

We are all victims of this pernicious activity on the Web and since there's no end in sight to this unethical abuse, we all must become more vigilant.

"I have confidence that the report will bring to light the almost pernicious activities of the department," Mr. Schumer said.

The sanctions against the four, the statement said, helped to expose what it called "Hezbollah's pernicious activities that reach beyond the borders of Lebanon".

But because the proposed deal covers the pernicious activities of not one but three banks — JPMorgan and two defunct institutions, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual — it helps us recall how comprehensively corrupt the mortgage machinery was.

The United States on Thursday sanctioned four senior officials of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese Shiite militant organization, asserting they were responsible for a range of "pernicious activities" that extended to Lebanon's neighbors and throughout the Middle East.

The technological protection measures were designed into the iPhone precisely to prevent these kinds of pernicious activities, and if granted, the jailbreaking exemption would open the door to them.

However, "... the notion that this will be a game-changer with all this money funneled into Iran's pernicious activities misses the reality of Iran's current situation," said President Obama during a speech he gave at American University in August about the deal.