Sentence examples for pernicious point from inspiring English sources

But many of them are making a far more pernicious point.

A different but also pernicious point is that a person will be called "African American" even if only, say, one of his eight great grandparents was of African descent.

Mr Hester views this legacy as pernicious and points to the concentrations of risky loans on RBS's books as evidence of deeper problems than boardroom errors about capital ratios.

Diplomats, military officers and senior officials flying in from Washington often say privately that while public graft is pernicious, there is no point in trying to abolish it and that trying to do so could destroy the very government the West has helped to build.

Gabby Giffords drove home that point and the pernicious effect those words could have on the unstable, in a statement released Tuesday.

What is more pernicious is an unsustainable level of pressure - and he points to teaching as an example - here the government was forced to introduce a plan to reduce workload.

Baseball aficionados might conclude that all of this points to some pernicious new trend in the market for top players.

He pointed to the pernicious effects of big money in politics, the gerrymandering of congressional districts and the lack of effective accountability to the voters.

This always rears its head at some point, like a particularly pernicious weed, partly because Chelsea is often described as the start of the London Season.

The ever-animated Donald Trump pointed to a more pernicious bogeyman: fear.

Together, they pointed out the most pernicious scams they've seen in the last five years.