Sentence examples for pernicious matter from inspiring English sources

By 1797, petitioners living adjacent to a pond in the Big Apple were writing: "The Stream that formerly flowed into the Fresh-water-pond being filled with a number of Dead animals being thrown into it" is "now in a State of putrefaction together with a pernicious matter running from a Glue Manufactury".

A cancer diagnosis is a pernicious thing.

The reality is that Labour will win again only when enough ordinary members decide that ridding the country of this pernicious government matters most.

The gold standard would have played a pernicious role no matter what, but France's behaviour made the dynamic Mr Krugman describes much worse than it should have been.

We doubt that that book, no matter how potentially pernicious its influence, could have converted anybody to anything.

Taking action against someone found to be harassing others is also often an awkward affair because they will invariably defend their actions by claiming that the matter was not pernicious – but a joke or simply thoughtless.

Warren does not merely represent one retrograde body of theological opinion, but is a pernicious political force which — no matter what disclaimers he makes — represents bigotry and strives to enforce inequality.If some evangelical bigwigs disapprove of Warren over this (and evidently some do), so much the better.

"That is a pernicious and dangerous thing".

Unrest has been growing for months as universities have come under more pressure to prove that their students are legitimate, according to the signatories, who say matters took a "pernicious new turn" in summer 2012 when London Metropolitan University briefly lost its trusted sponsor status – a requirement for all institutions wishing to recruit overseas students.

In fact, the truly pernicious commentary has centred around a matter of false equivalence that, if taken seriously, puts Barack Obama in a no-win situation: the idea that just as George Bush failed the test of Hurricane Katrina, so must Obama pass the challenge of Haiti.

It added, "Whether burning books or denying access to them, censorship, no matter its source, is a pernicious enemy to democracy".