Sentence examples for pernicious force from inspiring English sources

Now they face competition from an unexpectedly pernicious force: the courts.

In short, many Libyans say, the men are seen not as an alien, pernicious force but as patriots.

But their announced objectives have been badly undermined by the contours of their argument — a prosecutor's brief that depicts Israel as a singularly pernicious force in world affairs.

With his garish renderings and his eviction of the old low-rent amusements, Sitt was a major, pernicious force in the tumultuous re-zoning process.

[snip] You can say that AIPAC was misguided, that it's even become a pernicious force, but you can't deny that it got its strategic premises ordered properly.

Many others have argued, correctly I think, that farm supports are a pernicious force on net, preventing the free movement of crops around the world and skewing production decisions in developing nations.

But pernicious forces were at work.

She escaped seemingly unscathed from the more pernicious forces that can harry those whose real lives become tangled up with the imaginary ones that writers endow them with.

The Slovene variant is more subtle but no less pernicious: forcing companies to pay imprudently high dividends.Proper regulation of capital markets and an influx of more far-sighted shareholders are a partial antidote.

The last decade has witnessed a surprising number of cities brought to the brink by the pernicious forces of water, wind, earth and fire, or in some cases, combinations of these.

Though it is proposed for the most sincere of reasons, "Autumn's Law" advances the agenda of one of the most pernicious forces in American political life.