Sentence examples for pernicious move from inspiring English sources

In a particularly pernicious move on the part of the government, the law has been changed to allow the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to share universal credit claimants' personal data with social landlords, councils and charities.

Today, the consequences of that pernicious move are being felt in every corner of the United States.

Everyone knows the official position is a pernicious nonsense – the move in Freiburg seems to have sprung from the 75-year-old Robert Zollitsch, who was until recently archbishop there, and so responsible for enforcing something in which he clearly does not believe.

Vallas has even tackled the pernicious practice of social promotion – moving kids up each year whether they deserve it or not — for the sake of self-esteem.

It was criticized for being abstract and based on a priori assumptions about human behaviour, in particular the "pernicious" assumption that people are moved only by narrow self interest.

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 most pernicious, when a dealer discounted a car to move it off the lot, the forecasting system would see that sale as true marketplace demand, triggering inaccurate forecasts of orders that were likely to come.

Nonetheless, it hasn't worked, lest coyotes would be controlled and the controllers could move on to other programs, hopefully less pernicious and more successful and economically worthwhile activities.

Chris Grayling will say the move is designed to help teenage criminals break the "pernicious cycle" of reoffending and become law-abiding adults.

But the reforms would strike at the most pernicious, unfair sorts of income disparity and allow more people to move upwards.

The soon-to-be-renamed Cartoon Lounge has tried to move on to a new topic — sports — but the pernicious beast that is Thanksgiving week has permeated even this, my hilarious and off-the-wall introduction.