Sentence examples for pernicious advance from inspiring English sources

One of the jobs of the university is, paradoxically, to resist with reason the pernicious advance of such heedless rationalisation, with its culture of homogeneity, which can only result in intellectual entropy and what Weber called "a polar night of icy darkness".

People punched the air, though possibly not in outrage at the pernicious advance of Smut Inc., while a terrifying gaggle of pre-pubescent girls snaked through the crowd, re-broadcasting the lyrics as soon as they left the lips of the man on stage.

Reserves of advice, pernicious advice, as well.

This incisive history should dispel the pernicious notion that the Confederacy fought the Civil War to advance the constitutional principle of states' rights and only coincidentally to preserve slavery.

Though it is proposed for the most sincere of reasons, "Autumn's Law" advances the agenda of one of the most pernicious forces in American political life.

Right now, with our leaders crafting pernicious policies around a perverse version of the American past, we must insistently advance our more complete story.

Above all, our ambition is that the investment will lead to advances in both the understanding and the treatment of a number of pernicious neurodegenerative diseases.

Payday loans — advances that are to be repaid on payday — are so burdensome and so pernicious that in 2006 Congress effectively banned them for military families.

However, the more advanced our tools, the harder it becomes to justify not using them, and the pernicious term "ageism" has been the Trojan horse under which much of the recent increase in medical intervention has been smuggled.

A pernicious recent outbreak among fifth and sixth graders at one well-regarded Brooklyn school is thought to have been advanced during a pillow fight at a Cobble Hill sleepover last November.

"Pernicious quicksand!