Sentence examples for pernicious figure from inspiring English sources

Yet the government's sentencing memo paints Mr. Rajaratnam as a pernicious figure: "He corrupted old friends.

Instead of reinvention, the crisis of political representation has given rise to its most pernicious figure: that of a saviour of the nation.

It's a pernicious trope that runs counter to reality.

The league's president, Deirdre Macnab, said that the Guardian's figures confirmed the pernicious impact of voter suppression laws in the state.

As Geller sees it, the challenge that these writers set for themselves was to activate the power of these associations — to engage the associations from within, by using animal figures themselves — without reinforcing pernicious, and ultimately deadly, stereotypes.

Nicaso believes that the interception of communications is essential to fighting organized crime because it's the only way to establish hierarchies of command and to figure out just how widespread and pernicious its influence is.

In the recent play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" Uday figures in the afterlife as a pernicious ghost.

It has misrepresented its figures to cover up the full extent of its pernicious sanctions regime.

The fusion of their political and commercial interests in the upper reaches of power has had pernicious results.An early test will be whether Mr Putin replaces the most spectacularly incompetent and greedy figures, and with whom.

Political figures say the potential for any quote to blow up at any time has the pernicious effect of making them more cautious, forever conscious that the next words out of their mouth could become a weapon against them.

Figuring prominently among those conditions are political dysfunction, economic underdevelopment and social alienation, along with the pernicious residue of European colonialism still lingering everywhere from arbitrary borders to thieving local elites.