Sentence examples for pernicious amendment from inspiring English sources

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.

She has urged the erasure of the Citizens United ruling and "its pernicious effects" by constitutional amendment, congressional legislation or new Supreme Court justices.

The Guttmacher Institute's Heather Boonstra, who conducted an analysis of insurance coverage of abortion, called the Hyde Amendment "a pernicious law that explicitly targets the poorest and most vulnerable women".

In an important ruling upholding free speech rights under the First Amendment, the Supreme Court this week overturned a pernicious law passed by Congressional Republicans to handcuff and muzzle the lawyers who represent poor people in civil cases under the federally financed Legal Services program.

In a case filed in 2010 against the state and Pat Quinn, the governor, they said that being forced to subsidise the union amounted to a "pernicious form of compelled expressive association" that violated their First Amendment rights.

In 1916 she campaigned against Woodrow Wilson for not supporting the Anthony Amendment to give women the right to vote, and she collapsed during the strenuous effort, dying from pernicious anemia, exhaustion and bad medical care while she was traveling.

"Pernicious quicksand!

But pernicious?

You have pernicious anemia.

And they are pernicious.

That is pernicious.