Sentence examples for pernicious bill from inspiring English sources

It is a "nasty, pernicious" bill.

Yet it is hard to imagine a clearer or purer example of exactly that behavior than this pernicious bill.

She said President Clinton's "signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children".

Does this mean that he will now campaign against his own government's pernicious housing bill?

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By removing all restrictions on parliamentary tactics, Reid enables his co-partisans to be painted as obstructionists without ensuring that they will successfully obstruct anything, since Republicans might well eventually break the filibuster and pass the pernicious intelligence committee bill anyway.

"391 Percent Payday Loan" (editorial, April 13) argues that payday loans "are so burdensome and so pernicious" that even a bill to restrict them in more than 20 states does not go far enough in protecting consumers.

I hope we will be able to remove this pernicious provision (added to the bill at the end of its passage through the Commons), but at the very least the government should move now to exempt those subject to domestic abuse, in line with their strategy to end violence against women and girls.

The House is again seeking, in its foreign aid bill, to impose a pernicious "gag rule" on international groups receiving American aid for family planning programs.

I don't think billing hours leads to the pernicious activity that some people say they do".

The first is the trade union bill – surely one of the most pernicious pieces of proposed legislation in recent history.