It is the combination of those two factors — the broad granting of power to the executive branch and cutting the judicial branch out of the process — that makes the 2005 law so pernicious, the groups say.
All year, Mr. Kerry has argued that the war in Iraq has diverted resources and attention away from what should have been devoted to a more pernicious target, terrorist groups, and he has accused the president of squandering alliances that previous administrations carefully cultivated.
The lack of foreign policy success for the Bush administration is a sign of the president's utter lack of competence, as well as the pernicious influence of lobby groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.Fernando LezaCaracasWhich way to turn?SIR - You say that an assertive Russia will flex its energy muscles this year ("Power politics", December 29th, Economist.com).
Still, Mr. Ferere said, that small group can be pernicious.
The House is again seeking, in its foreign aid bill, to impose a pernicious "gag rule" on international groups receiving American aid for family planning programs.
In the obsession to find anti-semites lurking under every stone, you can no longer differentiate between the important work of supporting Jewish students intimidated on campus by Muslim and far-left groups, resisting the pernicious proposal to boycott Israeli academics - or gratuitously insulting, in the name of Jewry, the brave, decent and morally upright Desmond Tutu.
Such stereotyping and discrimination affects some racial, ethnic and cultural groups in particularly pernicious ways.
This is the work that truly matters -- because policies that disenfranchise specific groups are more pernicious than hateful rants.
In a sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors said that United States citizens who help terror groups constitute "a particularly pernicious threat".
The biggest problem seems to be the pernicious influence of business and financial groups on the political process.
