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.
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.
Congress passed the Hatch Act of 1939, "An Act [t]o prevent pernicious political activities," in order to prohibit federal officials from using their positions for partisan purposes.
Tells about the loopholes in the 2 regulatory laws regarding campaign spending, the Corrupt Practices Act, of 1925, & the Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activity, of 1939.
The statutes granting personhood rights to fetuses are never more pernicious than when they criminalize acts of God.
Mr Lamb said: "The legal system in this country acts in a pernicious way and stops claims being aired in court.
As Jaime Fuller explained in the Washington Post back in 2014, the Hatch Act (or as it's more alliteratively known, "An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities") is "designed to prevent members of the federal government who do not have explicitly political roles — like the president or vice-president — from engaging in political activity".
