Sentence examples for pernicious power from inspiring English sources

This is legalised harassment and a pernicious power which doesn't act as a deterrent.

Others have pernicious power; for example, a certain maqām attracts evil spirits, while a certain raga may cause fire.

What the videos reveal about social exclusion, gender roles and the pernicious power of media representation proves these things are far from women-only issues.

This is a movie we have seen before, and will again, as the Center for Responsive Politics explains in report after report about the pernicious power of money in politics--and not just to fund a legacy center at a public university in Harlem.

They saw the treaty, crafted under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), as giving governments pernicious powers to meddle with and censor the internet.

The media is an overwhelmingly pernicious force.

The contrast exemplifies the pernicious and corrosive power of standardized metrics of success in any educational setting — to transform what we value and how we learn.

This Court has recognized that the stricter standard is as much required in criminal contempt cases as in all other criminal cases, [n3] and has emphasized that the "vice of vagueness" is especially pernicious where legislative power over an area involving speech, press, petition and assembly is involved.

Preserving US preeminence and influence overseas will come from restoring economic growth and curbing the pernicious, often secret, power of committed interest groups.

It listed the most pernicious difficulties for manufacturers: power shortages, taxes and the "inspector raj".

This may be experienced hurtfully by some Jews as antisemitism, particularly when such age-old pernicious tropes as Jewish power and control are invoked, whether carelessly or maliciously.