Sentence examples for pernicious air from inspiring English sources

BEIJING -- Weary of waiting for the authorities to alert residents to the city's most pernicious air pollutant, citizen activists last May took matters here into their own hands: they bought their own $4,000 air-quality monitor and posted its daily readings on the Internet.

The government recently reversed course and began to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution -- particulates 2.5 microns in diameter or less, or PM 2.5.

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

There is growing recognition of the pernicious effects the consumption of fossil fuels creates through air pollution.

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.

Li told the newspaper that he had bought an air purifier, masks and a treadmill, but none had helped him to overcome the pernicious health effects of the smog.

"Pernicious quicksand!

Domestic abuse is pernicious.

That inertia is pernicious.

"It became pernicious".

The symptoms are pernicious.