Sentence examples for pernicious measures from inspiring English sources

Among that plan's pernicious measures is a provision that would grant the feds authority to pre-empt tougher state fuel efficiency standards, like those that have spread from California to more than a dozen other states.

Attorney General Eric Holder, who talked about the filings in an interview with ABC earlier this month, said in a statement on Wednesday that they "are necessary to confront the pernicious measures in Wisconsin and Ohio that would impose significant barriers to the most basic right of our democracy".

Even more pernicious measures are becoming widespread, such as moves to assess the performance of academic staff by measuring the amount of grant money they bring in (Bishop, 2014; Jump, 2015).

Perhaps the most pernicious measure is to introduce an income threshold for the non-EU spouses of EU citizens living in Britain.

It is, said the Daily Telegraph, "a pernicious measure that would see libel costs awarded against any newspaper which is not a member of a government-approved regulator".

The government recently reversed course and began to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution -- particulates 2.5 microns in diameter or less, or PM 2.5.

A pernicious measure just introduced in the House, the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act, provides the latest example of political conservatives trying to use religion as an excuse to discriminate.

It is a "nasty, pernicious" bill.

His statement resembled modern calls supporting the execution of the suspected WikiLeaks "whistleblower" Bradley Manning: "For the extermination of these pernicious vermin no measures can be too severe".

This country has already seen the pernicious effects of measures such as this.

He calls it a "pernicious double standard".