Sentence examples for pernicious effort from inspiring English sources

But add to this law a legislative debate in the Duma on banning foreign, mainly English, loanwords last month, as well as a crackdown on independent media, and you start to sense the presence of a much more pernicious effort to restrict both information and language.

As Krugman has argued, if Americans vote down Romney/Ryan, they will not have done so in order to endorse a less brazen but still pernicious effort to further weaken the social safety net.

But beyond the Trump tweets and FOX News headlines about how the administration has unleashed the stupendous power of the free market, there's a widespread and deeply pernicious effort going on to enable predatory practices and corruption in the US financial industry.

And aside from providing resources related to online privacy and security, Facebook still has little in place to protect its most vulnerable users from these pernicious efforts.

It will counter the pernicious efforts on the right to cook up the notion that a powerful poverty lobby created the crisis by forcing hapless banks to make loans to the unqualified because of the Community Reinvestment Act.

Republicans in Texas and Florida have been in the vanguard of the pernicious, widespread efforts to suppress voting by Hispanics and blacks.

Al-Qaida was just an early, pernicious and failed effort to create an extra-national political force.

This is less pernicious than a deliberate effort to hurt workers in order to boost corporate profits, but this confusion should not be allowed to be a basis for national policy.

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.

In efforts to guard against "pernicious" propaganda by hidden persuaders, modern democracies sometimes require that such propagandists as lobbyists and publishers register with public authorities and that propaganda and advertising be clearly labelled as such.

Putin's effort to protect Russia from pernicious Western influence will also affect the Internet as we know it.