Sentence examples for pernicious practice from inspiring English sources

Seriously, this pernicious practice is, we fear, on the increase.

In a pernicious practice called "concurrent production," assembly lines often start before testing is complete.

The bodies of community elders have been called "undemocratic" by the government, and the report labels them a "pernicious practice".

A most pernicious practice is the collusion with foremen or superintendents by which the employment agent 'splits fees' with them.

Paying women less than their male counterparts for a job of equal value has been illegal since the 1970s but that hasn't deterred the pernicious practice.

This would legalize a pernicious practice that has recently been used against the artist Ai Weiwei, the lawyer Gao Zhisheng and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.

How could such pernicious practices at the bank be allowed for so long?

As with many pernicious practices, child marriage would not exist without tacit support and approval from the country's leadership.

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have tried reeling in the more pernicious practices of some mug shot entrepreneurs, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Tobacco legislation would be incomplete if the industry was allowed simply to redirect its pernicious practices to lucrative new foreign markets.

"Those Crazy Indemnity Forms We All Sign," by Daniel Akst (Sunday Review, Dec. 9), doesn't mention one of the most pernicious practices that businesses build into their consumer contracts: denying customers their legal rights.