Sentence examples for pernicious causes from inspiring English sources

One could go even further (as Crummell easily could) and argue that if cognitive resources are diminished due to morally pernicious causes, then moral progress will be stymied unless and until a just accounting of those causes has been made, and remedies are carried out.

It is high time that we in this country come to terms with the fact that we have continued to undermine our own future by paying lip service to the issue of gender inequality without addressing some of its most persistent and pernicious causes.

These "shifting standards," said Gilliam, are a pernicious cause of what researchers call "implicit bias".

A change to AV removes two of the most pernicious distortions caused by FPTP.

This in turn contributed to the understanding of several diseases, including pernicious anemia caused by a deficiency of vitamin B12.

While Republicans scream about reducing the deficit the pernicious destruction caused by their compromise goes unquestioned and unreported by a deficient media.

And in attempting to disentangle them, critics are obstructing the ability of the film to strike a colossal and highly public blow against the pernicious Lost Cause.

Malaria is a complex and pernicious disease caused by a plasmodium parasite and transmitted by mosquitoes, resulting in severe morbidity and mortality globally.

Announcing the arrest of a group of mid-level Wall Street brokers, Bharara said, with some hyperbole, that the case was "precisely the type of pervasive and pernicious activity that causes average people to think that they would be better off pulling their money out of Wall Street and stuffing it in a mattress".

Its lack causes pernicious anaemia.

This journey also has to do with the body and what is in it, namely a virus that has crossed every border and floated onto every shore -- the infamous and pernicious virus that causes AIDS.