Sentence examples for pernicious attempt from inspiring English sources

In dictatorships or monarchies no one would been able to overrule this pernicious attempt at excluding people for their religion.

Bernstein, 69, said Rusbridger's appearance before the committee was a "dangerously pernicious" attempt by British authorities to shift the focus of the surveillance debate from excessive government secrecy to the conduct of the press.

"Ag-Gag laws are a pernicious attempt by animal exploitation industries to hide some of the worst forms of animal abuse in the United States," Animal Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Stephen Wells said in a statement.

Against this background, any attempt to reduce entities with a given essence to entities with a different one was perceived as a pernicious endeavor.

The question was "pernicious in its attempt to substitute racial stereotype for evidence," she added.

At his most pernicious, Trump has attempted a type of racial triangulation by enrolling African-Americans and Latinos in his xenophobic assaults on undocumented immigrants.

Hanley does not attempt to disavow the pernicious significance of that event.

In this attempt, Julian extended his pernicious influence into the most important aspect of the lives of his citizens, their religious worship and thus their hopes of salvation.

Which makes the whole thing all the more pernicious: Even after all the media coverage, attempts by law enforcement officials and healthcare professionals to fight the opioid crisis continue to reinforce the very problems they are meant to address.

On the other he attempts to establish that close connection became pernicious collusion, contending that "the secret relationship between these two great families helped trigger the Age of Terror and give rise to the tragedy of 9/11".

He argued that any attempt to associate WikiLeaks with Guccifer 2.0 was pernicious spin trying to turn a coincidence into a conspiracy.