Sentence examples for pernicious from from inspiring English sources

The filibuster was pernicious from the start, and Mr. Hagel should be approved without further delay.

Or did they feel, as I did, that it was pernicious from the start — a low-grade musing on atrocity, garnished with erotic titillation?

Thomas Everson (Linus Roache), a country club swell who has been trying to keep Everson Steel and United together during a period of rising labor costs and increased competition from China, now faces a more pernicious threat from Merkin's team, which has mobilized to conquer the business his family built.

Will Iraq's security forces be able to contend with pernicious threats from Al Qaeda's local offshoot?

It was the first evidence that the Police Department was facing a pernicious threat from within, and for five years, the evidence has mounted against Detective John K. Wrynn.

Their discovery converted pernicious anemia from an often-fatal disease into a treatable disorder and laid the groundwork for the development in 1948 of vitamin B12 therapy.

The same communications technologies that have played a varying and complex role in undermining pernicious dictatorships from Latin America to the Middle East and beyond will gradually undermine the controls international development organisations have in place of how the developing world is presented.

His separation of "essentialism" in a pernicious sense from the still-common use of "typology" is a welcome clarification.

And that's a far more pernicious admission from KSTP: that in its estimation, a white woman interacting with a black man with a criminal record is a de facto display of "poor judgment".

And that's a far more pernicious admission from KSTP: that in its estimation, a white woman interacting with a black man with a criminal record is a de facto display of "poor judgment". The black man, in this instance, comes to this story pre-judged.

Some experts suggested estimating absorption status by a blood test (eg, intrinsic factor antibody) in people with low vitamin B-12 status to distinguish patients with pernicious anemia from those with low vitamin B-12 status due to other causes.